Word: ribboned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year, died in the House last fall primarily because many vocal businessmen bucked it. (They wanted a more sweeping reform of tax depreciation rates.) Since then, business opposition to the Kennedy proposal has melted considerably, and the tax credit now seems likely to be enacted. One blue-ribbon industrial group, the Machinery and Allied Products Institute, did much to swing opinion by pointing out that an 8% writeoff would have as much impact, for most industries, as a 40% speedup in depreciation writeoffs. President Kennedy has also helped his own cause by speeding depreciation schedules in the textile industry...
...Yale chair; she became the first woman tenure-holder on Yale's liberal-arts faculty). On the other hand, Stanford got Yale's Historian David Potter. To replace Potter, Yale snagged Johns Hopkins' topflight Historian C. Vann Woodward, whose terms were a blue-ribbon chair and a year's leave of absence with pay before he ever reaches New Haven...
Obeying tradition, claims Miss Bethune, does not take away the artist's creative freedom, but simply makes him face facts. Getting the faces wrong, she argues, is as absurd as representing "George Washington with bushy black whiskers or Abraham Lincoln with soft white wig tied with ribbon...
...evening was right out of the 18th century: it might almost have been a concert led by Haydn at the court of the Esterhazys or a command performance by C.P.E. Bach for Frederick the Great. The assemblage of 153 guests was celebrated and varied. Not a single blue-ribbon American composer of serious music, from Aaron Copland to Alan Hovhannes, was missing from the guest list. The nation's leading conductors -Bernstein, Ormandy, Stokowski-were represented in white tie and tails, and all of the major music critics of New York and Washington were eagerly present. Said...
...earned $707,155-an average of $30,745 for every mile he has raced. He was 1960's Horse of the Year, seems certain to become the third horse to win that honor two years in a row (the others: Whirlaway, Challedon). This week, with a lucky yellow ribbon wound into his forelock and Old Master Eddie Arcaro in his saddle, Kelso will parade to the post for the most important race of his brief career: the Washington International, 1½ miles over the turf at Maryland's Laurel Race Course. The stakes are a $70,000 winner...