Word: samuel
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...poor boy from Hepzibah (pop. 400), W. Va., Samuel Desist had every reason to live down to his patronym. But, setting his sights on an Army career, he enlisted and persisted. By 1962, when he was 39, Sam Desist wore a major's gold oak leaf and was press officer for the U.S. Army at Orléans in France. Desist also acquired a chic French wife, who bore him two sons, and a taste for la vie as it is not lived in Hepzibah...
Among more general historians, Daniel Boorstin's second volume of a projected trilogy, The A mericans: the National Experience, defined the driving American character as it developed between the Revolutionary and Civil Wars. Samuel Eliot Morison's 1,150-page The Oxford History of .'he American People was impressive but quirky. Will a, d Ariel Durant's series on Western civilization continued to be a marvel of readable scholarship with the Age of Voltaire, and Kenneth Stampp's Era of Reconstruction put the blame back on the South's unreconstructed rebels instead...
Coal Bin Sessions. The ebullient Miss Rice publishes a yearly newsletter filled with members' adventures in impromptu music-making in far-off lands and chatty items about "an intradirectory wedding, bassoon-C to cello-D." Membership ranges from Foreign Policy Association President Samuel Hayes (viola-B) to a Manhattan night elevator operator (cello-B) who held wee-hour sessions in the coal bin of his building. Says Miss Rice: "There are a great many of us queer ducks who really love to play just for the sheer...
...program. When Addonizio warned the U.C.C. against "empire building," its president, Rutgers Law Dean C. Willard Heckel, vowed that the agency "would alter the power structure of the city." Many politicians fear that is no idle boast. In Los Angeles, it took the Watts riots to persuade Democratic Mayor Samuel Yorty to accept even seven representatives of "disadvantaged" areas on his 35-member poverty board...
Archibald Cox, Samuel Williston Professor of Law, has been named by Vice-President Humphrey to a five-man panel that will arbitrate the dispute between the Amateur Athletic Union and the National Collegiate Athletic Association...