Word: patrick
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Paul Sparer is a stuffed-shirt Ulysses who delivers his two lengthy disquisitions on degree and on time with imposing sonority. During the first, the satirical touch comes when Patrick Hines' gruff Agamemnon clearly doesn't suffer garrulity gladly and impatiently drums his fingers on the table...
...emerged in 1947. At the throttle then was ironhanded Frederic C. Dumaine. who had a simple method of cutting costs: he sacked the bulk of top-salaried employees -which left the New Haven with a chronic shortage of competent executives. In 1954, after a debilitating proxy war, rambunctious Patrick B. McGinnis came in as president; he spent millions to develop futuristic trains and passed out lavish dividends on New Haven preferred stock. When McGinnis departed for the Boston & Maine, he left to his successor and onetime ally, George Alpert, a long-term debt of $200 million...
...exiles chafing in idleness off to jobs in distant states. The Justice Department turned an unsympathetic eye on a 100-man band of international "commandos" melodramatically titled "the Intercontinental Penetration Force.'' Led by a hulking (6 ft. 7 in.), bearded American ex-marine who calls himself Jerry Patrick, the force practices parachute jumping, calls itself the nucleus of armed support for a Cuban liberal named Aureliano Sánchez Arango. Most significant, the U.S. was pointedly withholding promised support of Manuel Ray, the young reform-minded Cuban exile with the strongest claim to organizable underground strength inside Cuba...
...long Malcolm-Macduff-Ross scene in England is masterly writing; but it is difficult to bring off, and is usually radically cut. Here is almost intact, and expertly played by James Ray, Richard Waring, and Patrick Hines...
Married. Edward George Nicholas Paul Patrick, Duke of Kent, 25, captain in the Royal Scots Greys, currently eighth in succession to the British throne; and Katharine Worsley, 28, onetime schoolmarm, daughter of a former Yorkshire County cricketer; in York Minster...