Word: roosevelts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...That first wedding of a U.S. President's daughter in 1820 was confined so closely to the family that the ceremony was attended by only 42 guests and reported by the Washington press in 34 words. Subsequent White House brides from Elizabeth Tyler in 1842 to "Princess" Alice Roosevelt-who envisaged a "comparatively quiet family affair" and wound up with 1,000 guests in 1906-have sought with diminishing success to elude the tidal wave of publicity that inevitably engulfs a First Family wedding...
...riots exploded in a dreary slum around Roosevelt Road, southwest of The Loop, where residents-as in other neighborhoods-opened fire hydrants in a vain attempt to mitigate a day of 95° heat and 70% humidity. The police, as usual, came around to close the hydrants-only to be defied at one point by a young Negro man, who set the flow going again...
...juvenile incident," requested mobilization of the National Guard. On Friday, 4,000 men of the 33rd Infantry Division, armed with bayoneted rifles, machine guns and tear gas, took up positions in and around the riot zone. Major General Francis Kane sent 1,600 of his troopers through the Roosevelt Road area in a show of force. "If anyone shoots at my men," he warned, "my orders are to shoot back - shoot to kill." The rioting ran down to a few isolated outbursts...
...Maginot Line in the years preceding World War II, Charles de Gaulle has appeared to be a prophet before his time. Far too few people take this man seriously. I nominate him to fill the third position in the 20th century "trinity of greatness" with Churchill and Roosevelt...
...oppose Governor Nelson Rockefeller's bid for a third term in November. An unofficial favorite for the nomination last winter, O'Connor has since lost ground but still has strong organization support. His chances for the nomination, like those of the other three Democrats (Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., Industrialist Howard Samuels, County Official Eugene Nickerson), depend heavily on Senator Robert Kennedy, whose muscle in the party power structure is now such that he can pick the candidate at the September nominating convention. Though ostensibly neutral, Kennedy has contributed funds to Roosevelt's campaign, is believed to favor...