Word: pearling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Class, Italy's highest citation, for his support of the fight to free Italy from Fascism; Paul Hoffman, 73, managing director of the U.N. Special Fund, presented with the American Freedom Association's 1964 World Peace Award; Film Cowboy and Multi-millionaire Investor Gene Autry, 56, Novelist Pearl Buck, 71, Litton Industries Chairman Charles ("Tex") Thornton, 50, and Architect Minoru Yamasaki, 41, each given a Horatio Alger Award for a noteworthy rise from "humble beginnings"; Federal Judge Thurgood Marshall, 55, who successfully argued against segregated schools before the U.S. Supreme Court ten years ago, granted the N.A.A.C.P.s Liberty...
Died. Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura, 86, Japan's Ambassador to the U.S. on Dec. 7, 1941, who called on Secretary of State Cordell Hull one hour after Japanese bombs had fallen on Pearl Harbor to deliver a note breaking off peace talks because of "U.S. bad faith"; of a stroke; in Tokyo. At least to Westerners, Nomura will be best remembered for the tongue-lashing administered by Hull: "In my 50 years of public service I have never seen a document more crowded with infamous falsehoods and distortions, on a scale so huge that 1 never imagined until today that...
...week business trip to the Far East, made three speeches. The last one was in Washington, before the American Society of Newspaper Editors. Clearly not excluding Cabot Lodge from his appraisal, Nixon said: "Confidence in and respect for American leadership in Southeast Asia is at its lowest point since Pearl Harbor." But few Republicans seemed to be scrambling-so far, at least-to hitch themselves to Nixon's star. And Pennsylvania's Governor William Scranton was still insisting that he really, really wanted no part of the presidential nomination...
Showing up in Edwardian splendor, the moustached Souvanna Phouma sported a pearl stickpin, Homburg, and carved Laotian walking stick. He received a hug and kiss from Half Brother Souphanouvong, himself resplendent in a most unproletarian two-button suit with a bigger pearl stickpin. Paunchy Soldier Phoumi thought it more appropriate to wear combat fatigues. The trio conferred for an hour, broke for box lunches and Scotch airlifted in from Vientiane...
...Your account of President Johnson's cavorting across the hills of Texas at speeds up to 90 m.p.h. while sipping a cup of Pearl beer, was, to say the least, disconcerting at a time when the nation is still adjusting to the tragic loss of President Kennedy...