Word: robert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...slightly off-center. He sat down behind a big desk across from a big grandfather clock, surveyed a couple of portraits that he had ordered hung-one of his sideburned grandfather John Watson Foster, U.S. Secretary of State 1892-93 (under President Benjamin Harrison), the other of his uncle Robert Lansing, U.S. Secretary of State 1915-20 (Woodrow Wilson). On a small table within reach of his swivel chair, he laid out three books that through decades of international law and diplomacy he had rarely been without. The books: Stalin's Problems of Leninism, The Federalist papers, the Bible...
...London he proved more soft-spoken and diplomatic than the British had expected. In his university days he had been a passionate student of British history. Gazing last week at the portraits of every British Prime Minister since Sir Robert Walpole, which decorate the staircase of 10 Downing Street, Debré mused aloud: "Just imagine how long a staircase it would take in the Hôtel de Matignon to hang a portrait of every Prime Minister France has had in the same period...
Though knighted and lionized at 35 for his 1909 journey to Antarctica, Shackleton in 1914 was frantic because the great goals were disappearing. The North Pole had fallen to U.S. Explorer Robert E. Peary in 1909, the South Pole to Norway's Roald Amundsen in 1911. Shackleton conceived a scheme of sailing to the Atlantic coast of Antarctica and sledging across the continent via the Pole to the Pacific. He called it "the largest and most striking of all journeys." The Royal Geographical Society was cool to the idea-as well it might be. The feat was not achieved...
...Field House, Robert A. Sidenberg 2L, President of the Forum, will introduce Dean Bundy, who will in turn present Castro. After the speech and question period, Castro is scheduled to attend a reception in his hotel...
Crimson debaters will argue for the negative and plan to use the February flasco as a key point in their defense, according to Lorenz. Speakers from the University will be: Kenneth C. Aldrich '60, Peter L. Brooks 2B, David L. Bynum '59, Charles E. Lister '60, Robert W. Scrivner 1L, and William Zorbel...