Word: robertses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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¶ "Misconduct in government." G.O.P. National Chairman Wes Roberts, Air Force Secretary Harold Talbott and Public Buildings Service Commissioner Peter Strobel were allowed to resign voluntarily, with honor, after they were involved in "three notable instances of misconduct."
BOON ISLAND (275 pp.)-Kenneth Roberts-Doubleday ($3.75).
Novelist Kenneth (Northwest Passage) Roberts likes men who pull their weight. His heroes are generally fellows whose characters are compounded of the good, old-fashioned virtues, and their crises sometimes find them with little but hope to sustain them under pressure. His new novel, Boon Island-the first since Lydia...
On the night of Dec. 11, 1710, England's Nottingham galley was smashed to bits on rocky Boon Island, just six miles off the coast of Maine. What the crew of 14 sees the next morning is enough to test the fiber of any man: a ledge on which...
¶ More than 15 million moviegoers in 6,500 U.S. theaters cast votes at the end of November to choose their own film favorites in the first Audience Awards election. Winners of the gold-plated Audie, first cousin to the Oscar: best actor, the late James (East of Eden) Dean...