Word: sons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...final analysis, all one can really do when assessing a politician is to measure his contributions against his shortcomings. On that account, the pharmacist's son-turned-statesman comes out deserving of the veneration he has been accorded. When historians decide, as is their wont, which men can be called "great"--which combine consistent articulation of ideals with a constructive and inspiring approach to the conduct of public affairs, Hubert Humphrey will justifiably be among them...
...stand forever. It crumbled and fell. And though the rubble has not yet been completely removed, it no longer separates us from one another, blighting the lives of those on both sides of it." That breakthrough came, Carter said, largely because Martin Luther King Jr., "a spiritual son of Mahatma Gandhi," had taken "Gandhi's concepts of nonviolence and truth-force-and put them to work in the American South...
Office is behind them. Reflecting Carter's concern, his son Jeff and daughter-in-law Annette visited the islands last week. They attended the inauguration of Peter Tali Coleman, first native-elected Governor of American Samoa, then flew to Saipan, the trust territory capital, where Carlos Camacho will be sworn in this week as the first native-elected Governor of the Northern Marianas...
Woods is survived by his son, Thomas S. Woods III '50, and three grandchildren...
Langer combined the study of history with its creation, and he achieved distinction in both. Born the son of poor German immigrants in South Boston, Langer was a self-made man who served as Coolidge professor from 1936 until his retirement in 1964. During those years he established an international reputation, both as a scholar of European and Middle Eastern history, and as an expert in military intelligence...