Word: soldierly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...teacher preparation, which consists mainly of a few undergraduate survey courses in history. About one-third of Indiana's history teachers have not taken a single graduate course in the subject. "A teacher who invades the classroom with such a background," the authors warn, "is akin to a soldier entering battle with a popgun...
...comic talent never escaped infancy. He is equally steadfast in his disapproval of Ed Sullivan ("Old Smiley"), David Susskind ("Little David"), CBS News Commentator Mike Wallace ("a vacuum") and scores of other performers who fall short of the O'Brian standards. "I'm not a Hessian soldier," says O'Brian. "I can't write what I don't believe. The muscle in my column is opinion, and I can't write anyone else's opinion...
Died. Montagu Phippen Porch, 87, British soldier, archaeologist and colonial civil servant, who in 1914 at the age of 37 met Lady Randolph Churchill (then 60) at a ball in Rome, married her four years later to become stepfather to Britain's future Prime Minister, Sir Winston, his senior by almost three years; in Glastonbury, England...
...approved. It will remain on that rolling slope in Arlington National Cemetery where he was first buried. Embellished with a minimum of architectural detail by Kennedy's friend, Architect John Carl Warnecke, the grave is far more modest than another illustrious tomb in Arlington, that of the Unknown Soldier...
...Rivals recreates the England of 1775, complete with beautiful young ladies, their handsome and ardent lovers, and their meddling, if indulgent, parents. There's Miss Lydia Languish, an orphan of high birth determined to marry a soldier of low birth. And there's her lover, nobly-born Captain Jack Absolute, who must pretend he's a commoner to win Lydia's affections...