Word: pets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...another pet Kennedy proposal seemed about to bite the dust. He was just not having any luck with taxes...
...Angeles Philharmonic; a circular amphitheater for experimental drama seating 869, equipped with an elevator stage; a theater with 1,700 seats for plays. More than half the cost is coming from revenue bonds backed by Los Angeles County, the rest by private donation. It is a pet project of Mrs. Norman Chandler, wife of the publisher of the Los Angeles Times. She has already raised $9,400,000. Also under way in Los Angeles: a $10 million County Museum of Art, designed by William Pereira Associates, which will rise near the La Brea tar pits this summer. It will...
...Longfellow told the story, Hiawatha one day trustingly left the lodge unguarded only to find that Pau-Puk-Keewis, "whom the people called the Storm-Fool," had entered his home, killed his pet raven, then ransacked the place. After an arduous hunt, Hiawatha slew his treacherous enemy. Only then: Ended were his wild adventures, Ended were his tricks and gambols, Ended all his craft and cunning, Ended all his mischiefmaking...
...furiously for the chance to rub elbows with those who have arrived. Credit-by-association is used as a negotiable commodity by many of the Old Guard to do good in the world. "The very social Mrs. Lytle Hull," observes Society Photographer Jerome Zerbe, "is so obsessed by her pet charity, the Musicians' Emergency Fund, that she'd be photographed with anybody, even a bearded lady, if it would help the cause...
...responsible for Demag's growth has been bald, bespectacled Hans Reuter, 67. whose father launched the firm with a 1910 merger of three small Rhineland machinery makers. Last week, after 22 years as general manager of Demag, Reuter stepped up to chairman, to devote his time to such pet projects as Demag's atomic research program. To replace himself as operating boss, Reuter named burly Engineer Heinrich Miller...