Word: past
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...alumni squad, which has captured one of the previous five contests, boasts a lineup of three past All-Americans -- fullbacks Lannie Keyes '60 and Tony Marks '67, and halfback Andy Kydes '67 -- who should keep Harvard's offense honest...
Halfback Carl Brown ran into a mass of Harvard defenders on a line smash but he broke past the line of scrimmage and romped 70 yards to make the final score...
Married. Laurence Harvey, 40, the movies' handsome heel (Room at the Top, Darling); and Joan Cohn, 54, widow of Cinemogul Harry Cohn, ex-wife of Shoe Manufacturer Harry Karl, and Laurence's constant companion for the past eight years; he for the second time (he was divorced by British Actress Margaret Leighton in 1961), she for the third; in Nassau...
Historic Trio. By and large, such questions troubled busy Americans only during pessimistic moments of crisis and political unrest. Near the turn of the century, however, the search for a usable past that would somehow square the original American ideal with exploitive American practices began to be the constant concern of a handful of historians. Their efforts and ideas form the background of this book by Columbia University's Richard Hofstadter. The Progressive Historians tells the story of three men-Frederick Jackson Turner, Charles A. Beard and Vernon L. Parrington-who did the most to shape America...
Found and Lost. Sharp-tongued and harder-hitting, Beard shattered the myth of America's perfect past by a frontal assault on the Founding Fathers. In An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution, he argued that the great document, far from promoting the general welfare, was the reactionary work of wealthy men who in 1787 stood to profit from the creation of a strong, central and, above all, solvent government (nearly half the signers had lent the Government money). By suggesting that economic interests play a strong role in human events, Beard helped bring American history closer to the bitter...