Word: shepherded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...barrier to communication, Burke discovered, is the Bible's bucolic imagery. "Some of the boys have never seen sheep and don't know what a shepherd is," he says. "Biblical allusions to them make no sense." Even the most beautiful phrases can have unhappy connotations. The boys usually laughed when Burke spoke about lilies of the field that neither toil nor spin; for them, a lily is a homosexual...
...after doctors discovered a heart murmur, is now assistant director of the Manned Spacecraft Center at Houston, in charge of crew operations. Marine Lieut. Colonel John Glenn made an abortive try at politics, later retired from the Marine Corps, is now a director of a soft-drink company. Alan Shepherd was grounded 1½ years ago as a result of an infection of the inner ear, now serves as a coordinator of astronaut activities. And Scott Carpenter has been detached for service with the Navy's Project Sealab, an experiment in living under water...
...President presumably will soon be making his third Cabinet appointment (after Commerce Secretary Connor and Katzenbach). Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon last week told newsmen that he would not be around to shepherd the new excise-tax reduction bill through Congress, and thus confirmed longstanding rumors that he would leave the Administration within a few months. The man most often mentioned for the job: American Electric Power Co. President Donald Cook (TIME, Sept. 11), who was once Senator Lyndon Johnson's counsel on the Senate Preparedness Subcommittee. Said Johnson then: "He's rough, but he's fair...
...demonstrators argued that expansion of the Center to the Fenwood Rd, site would complete an unbroken chain of Harvard owned or affiliated properties stretching more than a half mile from the Medical School to the old site of the Convent of the Good Shepherd...
...land formerly owned by the Convent of the Good Shepherd is urgently needed for expansion of the Medical School," Wiggins stated. He added that the Convent land was "too far" from the Center to serve as an annex...