Word: sheaf
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Paterson, N.J., who graduated from his local high school two years ago with below-average grades, went on to a Manhattan business school. Gulevich caught the notice of admissions officials by writing the required essay about himself in the form of an extended poem, then by showing interviewers a sheaf of first-rate translations of Russian verse...
...York Cornucopia. How they will differ on 1968 issues remains to be seen. Nixon has not yet produced a sheaf of detailed proposals on major questions, although he talks a hard line on Viet Nam and calls for budget cutting at home. Nixon has also made some thoughtful statements on poverty here and abroad, on racial issues and other subjects that indicate he is developing new proposals for use when he considers the time right. Rockefeller in recent months has been studiously sticking to state affairs, venturing afield as a rule only in his capacity as chairman of the Republican...
...door to Writer John Koffend's office was closed. Researcher Nancy Atkinson, a sheaf of material for this week's Essay in hand, knocked and then tentatively turned the knob. Koffend was lying on the floor - but there was no reason for alarm. "Pardon me," he said, "I was just doing my push...
...greater command of expressive forces than the relatively primitive Mines. Meanwhile, Mines has become established in the European repertory, with performances in Italy, France, Germany and Sweden, and one now in preparation in Czechoslovakia. With three operas (including an early one-acter), four string quartets, two symphonies, and a sheaf of smaller pieces to his credit-and a piano concerto and another opera in progress-Bennett has already reached a point envied by most composers and attained by a few: he can live quite comfortably off his royalties...
...charge of the myriad details of this week's wedding is the First Family's social secretary, Elizabeth Clements Abell, 34. Working from a sheaf of check lists and a mammoth plastic-covered map of the White House on which the nuptial traffic flow is charted with a grease pencil, Bess Abell has organized the operation down to the last hairdresser's appointment and millimeter of guest space (2 sq. ft. per person). The last White House wedding of a President's offspring was in 1914, when Woodrow Wilson's daughter Eleanor married Treasury Secretary...