Word: soth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President had one chance for real relaxation. It was the soth birthday of his longtime friend Dave Powers, who serves as receptionist, relaxer, and rollick-some wit. Kennedy threw a surprise party for Powers, called him into the Cabinet Room to attend a "secret session" on Laos, handed him such gifts as a sweatshirt emblazoned VIGAH, a certificate for 50-mile hikes between the reception desk and the White House refrigerator for beer, and a silver stein engraved...
...gard them as trade schools. But there are exceptions. Most notable among them is Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism, which has only to survey the communications field whenever its self-confidence needs bolstering. Last week, at the start of a month-long celebration of its soth anniversary, Columbia could-and did-note that among its 2,700 living alumni are 132 newspaper publishers and editors, 46 magazine editors, a score of journalism school deans, ten Pulitzer prizewinners and a raft of New York Timesmen (78 at last count). To celebrate, Columbia lured three big-name journalists...
...year-old son Max. Representing a citizens' committee affiliated with Religious Heritage of America, Inc., Ramsey had trekked to Lambaréné to urge Schweitzer to undertake an eight-week tour of the U.S. "to inspire Americans." But Schweitzer, who this week observes his soth year in Africa and still works up to 18 hours a day ministering to the sick, politely declined. "Time," he said, "is running...
Being dean has its rewards, but universities also need presidents. Last week: > Kenneth Sanford Pitzer, 48, was inaugurated as Rice University's third president at a three-day academic festival marking Rice's soth year and attended by 27 famed scholars, ranging from Nobel Laureate Albert Szent-Gyorgyi through Anthropologist Margaret Mead to Hiscorian Arnold Toynbee. Pitzer had been dean of chemistry at the University of California's Berkeley campus, and before that director of research...
...saying the action was not only good for the play, but also for introducing the House's symbol--you guessed it an elephant--to the fresh-men. He noted that Shake-speare refers to an Elephant tavern in Twelfth Night: "Hold, sir, here's my purse, in the soth suburbs, at the Elephant, is best to lodge...