Word: patronized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...employees of the Panama Canal Co., were as dissatisfied as the Panamanian demonstrators. "The sight of a representative of the U.S. handing our capitulation notice to another country made me want to puke," said one. Yet a quiet movement toward international friendship is afoot on the isthmus, and its patron is a powerful one: the commanding officer of the U.S. Army Caribbean, Major General Theodore F. Bogart, 55. Lanky General Bogart got to know and like Panama when he was stationed there as a lieutenant in 1941. Now, as the man who might have to order U.S. troops to fire...
...that such a show, opening first in Bruges and then in Detroit, would be an excellent way to celebrate the Detroit Institute's 75th anniversary. After all, the institute owned 10% of all the Flemish art in the U.S. King Baudouin was approached, and agreed to be a patron; so did President Eisenhower. Museums from San Francisco to Munich lent works, and the U.S. Navy was called in to carry the U.S. loans across the Atlantic. This week, when the show completes its run in Europe, it will be packed into air-conditioned trucks that will head with motorcycle...
Dreaming of a great university in the nation's capital, George Washington bequeathed fifty shares in the Potomac (Canal) Co. for just that purpose. The shares turned out to be worthless, and The George Washington University has yet to fulfill its patron's capital dream. But last week George Washington, after an 18-month culling of 130 candidates, picked a new president who yearns to do the job. He is Thomas Henry Carroll II, 46, vice president of the Ford Foundation, and holder of one of the most impressive resumes ever scrutinized by a college board of trustees...
...Annals of Internal Medicine, Dr. Raab accuses U.S. heart researchers of having neglected the relationships be tween emotional states, biochemical processes and heart disease. Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1849-1936), patron saint of Rus sian medicine, was one of the early work ers in this field, says Dr. Raab, and the U.S.S.R. is now putting his theories into vigorous practice...
...with the unknown "dark lady of the sonnets." Biographers have found traces of this siren's raven hair, pitch-black eyes, jigging walk, panting breath and wanton ways in the characters of Ophelia, Cressida and Cleopatra. The third event was the arrest and imprisonment of Shakespeare's patron, the Earl of Southampton, for helping Essex plot against the Queen. In combination, these events seem to have left Shakespeare at times with a bleak view of man's fate, and a nausea of sex. No existentialist has found life more meaningless than Shakespeare's "tale told...