Word: ribbons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Show at Hickory Hill was the fauna-everything from dogs to two worms that were entered as twins. "We want to keep politics out of this show," said Ringmaster Art Buchwald, but there was a slip-up in the Unusual Pet category. Two "Watergate bugs" got a blue ribbon. A chameleon named Richard Nixon took second prize...
Only her memories have any radiance. She thinks of riding through a misty forest, of a broad hat ribbon of black silk bought for her as a present by her husband, of a holiday with her family, all of them together in a small hotel room. Sometimes there are only bright flashes of objects recalled: a pair of spectacles, a boat, a book, a favorite...
...Corporation granted Cox wide, unilateral powers to handle disorders in the fall of 1969, a few months after the University Hall bust and a year after he directed a blue-ribbon commission to study the crisis at Columbia University...
...Cambridge, Northwestern Law), and married the daughter of former Mayor Anton Cermak. Kerner's father who had worked himself up from poverty to the federal bench, beamed with pride as he swore in his son as a US attorney. Mayor Richard Daley then recruited Kerner as a blue-ribbon candidate to run for Governor in 1960 against William Stratton, whose administration had been plagued by scandal...
Dunlop will have high-level help. The COLC will be advised by an elite committee of five union chiefs and five leaders of blue-ribbon corporations. Crusty AFL-CIO President Meany, who stormed off the Pay Board a year ago, has agreed to serve on the committee. So have Steelworkers President I.W. Abel, Teamsters President Frank Fitzsimmons, Seafarers President Paul Hall and UAW Chief Leonard Woodcock. The business members are Stephen Bechtel Jr., president of Bechtel Corp., a huge engineering and construction firm; Edward Carter, chairman of the Broadway-Hale department-store chain; R. Heath Larry, vice chairman...