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In her sixtieth year she took the post of Director of the American observatory at Fontainebleau, outside Paris. There every summer she continues to hold court. During the year when she is not traveling, she stilling cupies her large apartment on Ballu.
At Stanford University in 1958, one top applicant for a $2,500 Wallace E. Stegner creative writing fellowship was moody Mitchell J. Strucinski, 35, author of two poignant short stories in the Atlantic. Professor Stegner himself was much impressed. Only one thing gave him pause: Author Strucinski was in Washington...
Nixon's first gain: warm applause from the Pilgrims, a stilling of press criticism down to Beaverbrook press notes about his "Hollywood-style G-men" (he had two Secret Service men with him), about the "22-ft." length of his Cadillac.
Given firmness and understanding, said the President, there was hope for Geneva. "The people of all the world desire peace . . . [They] do not want to go to the battlefield; they want to live in peace-not a peace that is a mere stilling of the guns but a peace in...
5) The stilling of radios to eliminate inter ference from Navy code messages to the attendant fleet.