Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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> At Montreal's Expo, the U.S. pavilion abjures solemnity in favor of a wildly playful dome by Buckminster Fuller, 1967.
> Pollock (1967), Kline (1968) and De Kooning (1969) all had large-scale retrospectives, tacitly appointing them to the status of modern old masters.
Married. Prudence Ann Farrow, 21, Mia's sister and second of Maureen O'Sullivan's four daughters; and Albert Bruns, 26, a teacher of transcendental meditation; in a Unitarian ceremony in Wallingford, Pa.
Married. Bobbie Gentry, 27, the lissome singer who two years ago had millions wondering what Billie Joe threw off the Tallahatchie Bridge; and William Harrah, 58, owner of Nevada's biggest gambling casino, Harrah's Club at Reno and Lake Tahoe; he for the third time; in a...
Died. Henry C. Alexander, 67, architect of the merger that created Morgan Guaranty Trust, the country's sixth largest commercial bank (assets: $11 billion); of a stroke; in Manhattan. Alexander accepted a partnership in the faltering house of Morgan in 1939, and shook up the stodgy banking community by...