Word: stimson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...This is Mazie's day," said Trieia Nixon Cox at the Westhampton Beach, N.Y., wedding of her sister-in-law Mary Ann Livingston Delafield Cox (daughter of the Socially Registered Howard Coxes) and Brinkley Stimson Thorne, who like his bride is a graduate of the Yale School of Architecture. Trieia was in pink chiffon and Husband Ed wore a dark gray pin-stripe suit, but many of the guests came in jeans or granny dresses. Mazie started out in her great-aunt's ivory satin wedding gown and ended up hi a bathing suit and Indian shirt...
...myriad missions that the CIA has performed around the world. The agency is also constantly accused of fantastic James Bondian exploits that more often than not it has nothing to do with. The fact is that no nation can any longer accept Secretary of State Henry Stimson's bland dictum of 1929 that "gentlemen do not read other people's mail." In a nuclear-ringed globe, intelligence is more vital than ever. Nor can a world power automatically limit itself to such a passive role as mere information gathering; trying to influence events may at times be necessary...
Among The Crimson and Magenta men of the first ten years were such easily recognizable names as Owen Wister '83 the novelist, Josiah Quincy '80, the future Mayor of Boston, Barrett Wendell '77, the legendary Harvard professor, and Frederic Jessup Stimson '76, Wilson's Ambassador to Argentina, who is most remembered today as the author of the early Harvard novel Rollos's Journey to Cambridge...
...members: Co-Chairmen Lucy Wilson Benson, president, League of Women Voters, and C. Donald Peterson, associate justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court; Barry Bingham Sr., chairman, the Louisville Courier Journal; Stimson Bullitt, president, King Broadcasting Company (Seattle); Hodding Carter III, editor, the Delta Democrat Times (Greenville, Miss.); Robert Chandler, editor, the Bulletin (Bend, Ore.); Ithiel de Sola Pool, professor of political science, M.I.T.; Hartford N. Gunn Jr., president, Public Broadcasting System; Richard Harwood, assistant managing editor, the Washington Post; Louis Martin, editor, the Chicago Defender; John B. Oakes, editorial page editor, the New York Times; Paul Reardon, associate justice, Massachusetts...
...From the Cold), once observed that the West does not believe in "eating people" and yet is forced to defend this very principle by using individuals as "ammunition." In the U.S., espionage was grossly neglected until the advent of the cold war. In 1928, Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson was shocked to learn that the State Department had a cryptographic bureau. He fired the founder of the code-breaking agency, observing: "Gentlemen do not read other people's mail." But since then, the U.S. has overcome these and other scruples; it has learned a great many lessons from...