Word: path
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...path led through the College of the City of New York and on to Harvard Law School. How could a young man from the Lower East Side go to Harvard? The tuition was only $150 a year then, Frankfurter once explained, and "you could live on very little." Frankfurter reached the top of his class, got into a leading New York City law firm after graduation. But he soon gave that up to serve under Henry...
American landscape painter, and longtime (1939-49) president of the National Academy of Design who guided the institution down a careful academic path, arguing that "the Academy is like a pendulum to a clock-it assures a rational, regular, orderly progress. It has no room for experimentalists. The Academy can afford to wait"; in Mannhattan...
...together. One night after they'd been there about a year, one man got in and robbed the smokehouse where all the meat was, and the others got mad and they killed him. That was the end of that Russian business." Byrd heads back down a bridle path, the Shoreham's sandy-colored brick looming above the trees. "When I was Gover nor they asked me if Winston Churchill could come down and visit. He wanted to see the battlefields. The only trouble was that when he got there, they told me he drank a quart of brandy...
...thick were the crowds that surged to greet Ben Bella's plane when it touched down at Maison Blanche Airport that an Algerian army officer in a paratroop uniform fired a tommy gun in the air to clear a path for him. With sirens screaming, 30 motorcycle cops led the motorcade on a wild ride into downtown Algiers. Switching lanes with abandon and totally disregarding one-way street signs, the cars alternately sped along at 60 m.p.h. or were caught in bumper-to-bumper jams as the screaming populace boiled forward to see its new leader. Finally the caravan...
...Britain's trade with the Common Market. A tough, pragmatic bargainer who is trusted by the party's right wing (he did not oppose the Suez invasion), he was picked last year to succeed Iain Macleod as Colonial Secretary, has quietly demolished some herculean roadblocks in the path of independence for African territories, notably in reaching agreement last month on a five-year plan to settle 70,000 landless natives on a million acres of Kenya's choice White Highland farmland...