Word: potomac
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
That loping shaggy dog was good for a laugh on both sides of the Potomac last week, and the laugh was not so much the measure of a joke as a symbol of Washington's high spirits about U.S. progress in the space race. In one spectacular month the U.S. has lapped the Russians-not with any single spectacular display such as Sputnik or the moon shots, but with a succession of scientifically important launchings that are building a solid stairway to the stars. Said a top Government space scientist: "The Soviets have been first with spectacular shots...
...exert economic pressure against five-and-dime chains. Variety stores in North and South were feeling the pinch of Negro economic pressure-a new weapon long deemed too risky-but so far the Negroes had not yet won so much as an integrated cup of coffee below the Potomac...
...words a day out of Washington; Scotty Reston's New York Times bureau sends about half that much, including the official transcripts of conferences and speeches that are fodder for the U.S. newspaper with the greatest sense of historical record. In this unending flow from the Potomac, the Washington press corps-filling top spots in the news columns and on the newscasts every day-wields great power over public opinion...