Word: pursuits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WORLD OF HENRY ORIENT introduces Tippy Walker and Merrie Spaeth as a pair of teen-age metrognomes who liven up New York in pursuit of Concert Pianist Peter Sellers, their favorite celebrity...
...military intervention in its attempt to hold Southeast Asia from the Red Chinese and North Vietnamese. From Washington to Vientiane, the operation was punctuated by denials that obviously could not be kept up much longer. After all, it was an election year, and even as Lyndon Johnson preached "the pursuit of peace," other Government officials were taking pains to tell Washington journalists that Southeast Asia was as crucial to Western interests as Berlin. But the U.S. had made a move, and, for the moment at least, it seemed to have produced an effect...
...hundred countries, economists are increasingly called upon to build, revive or draw together national economies. Their home is no longer the ivory tower, and their profession is no longer the "gloomy science" but a romantic and rewarding wielding of power. Lively activists, they range the world in pursuit of the universal goal of economic growth...
...presidential scholar," to be bestowed on outstanding students as they finished high school and headed for college. Announcing the program in April, the President said, "These awards are to recognize the most precious resource of the United States - the brain power of its young people - to encourage the pursuit of intellectual attainment among all our young people." This week the first year's scholars, 121 strong, gather in the White House for a presidential handshake and a medal designed by Sculptor Jacques Lipchitz...
...patly. The frustrations of wife and life have made John irascible, intolerant and bitter. Nettie is sad-eyed, stiff-bodied, and given to sulky silences. She has ruled the family by veto power; he, in turn, has mutilated his wife's heart with incessant drinking and the pursuit of "hotel-lobby whores." Trying to cast up a balance sheet of guilt, Timmy blames first one parent, then the other...