Word: talled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FEET TALL. The African odyssey of an orphaned British lad (Fergus McClelland) leads him to the lair of a rambunctious old diamond poacher (Edward G. Robinson) and into a fresh and colorful adventure story...
...however, McNamara is having his troubles with Congress-mostly in the person of L. (for Lucius) Mendel Rivers, 59, new chairman of the Armed Services Committee, a tall, militarily erect (although he has no service record) lawyer from Gumville, S.C., who now lives in Charleston. Rivers admires McNamara's ability, but he has long been irritated at the way the Secretary favored Vinson with inside information, often leaving the other 37 committee members in the dark. The new chairman's view came through clearly at a recent McNamara briefing. Riled by McNamara's patronizing attitude, he said...
...McCandlish falters, tall righthander John Scott, a starting forward on the varsity basketball team, will be ready to help out. Scott and McCandlish were the team's two most reliable pitchers this year...
...amateur handwriting analyst, I thought that Jackie Kennedy's letter was more interesting for revealing her personality than as a collector's item [May 28]. The tall rounded capitals show her artistic ability, and the regularity in the size of her letters and the straightness of her lines indicate strong will and ability to stick to any course she chooses. She enjoys solitude, as the slight backward slant of her handwriting shows, although her large script reveals that she doesn't mind being the center of attention. She is quite frugal-notice that there is hardly...
...Islands for five days of sun, fun and social functions, Lady Bird Johnson got her first taste of skindiving in the blue-green waters of Caneel Bay. When she surfaced, obviously captivated by the world below, she reported that she saw "lacy, fanlike purple shapes that looked six feet tall, and treelike objects with millions and millions of fingers like in a horror movie-but k was beautiful!" Obviously captivated, as well, were the islanders when she attended commencement exercises for the first graduating class at the College of the Virgin Islands. At one point, somebody asked her what degrees...