Word: oyster
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rousmaniers resigned his post as Director of the Fund to run as Democratic candidate for the Town Council of Oyster Bay, N.Y. in the November elections...
...jeune homme" (Follow me, young man). Soon she was wearing a velvet vest embroidered with 240 diamonds. Admirers gave her gilded carriages and chateaux, buckets of jewels, and a mansion on the Champs-Elysées. A U.S. millionaire invited Otero to a simple supper of caviar and oysters-in each oyster lay a pearl. By 1894 she was so rich that she spurned an offer of 10,000 francs for one night, and the luckless man killed himself in humiliation. Young Prince Peter of Russia begged Otero, "Ruin me, but don't leave me." Premier Aristide Briand traveled...
...Ivans" dived lowest over West Berlin's sleek Congress Hall, nicknamed "the pregnant oyster," where West Germany's Bundestag was sitting in a one-day symbolic session. With the acquiescence of the three Western allies that still retain occupation rights in the city, the session had been convened-in defiance of Soviet wishes-to reaffirm West Germany's determination that Berlin will one day be the capital of a reunited Germany...
Michael Brenne '65, of 900 Memorial , Cambridge and Catonsville, Maryland and David S. Kershaw '65, of Quincy and Oyster Bay, New York, have the Churchill Scholarships, named the late Sir Winston Churchill...
Twelve to Nothing. In the five years since she was launched at Oyster Bay, N.Y., Ondine has sailed 130,000 miles. Last year she competed in 14 international races, finishing first in Class A six times and first in the fleet twice. Two weeks ago, as 26 boats from eight nations swept out to sea for the start of the Buenos Aires-Rio race, Ondine's chances looked slim indeed. The favorite was Stormvogel, a 73-ft. ketch owned by Dutch Timberman Cornelius Bruynzeel. The heaviest yacht in the race (43 tons), she was the defending champion...