Word: theo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...GOLDEN BEES by Theo Aronson. 407 pages. New York Graphic Society...
VINCENT VAN GOGH: A SELF-PORTRAIT (Caedmon). Credit for this vivid auto-analysis must go first to Van Gogh for writing such searching, searing letters to his brother Theo, second to Lou Hazam for an artful job of editing, third to Lee J. Cobb for reading life into the result...
...clock in the morning was one of the world's best exercises. Kennedy has never tested his oratory on predawn Los Angeles, but he does rise at 5:30 for a quick breakfast, then scoots off to his office for an hour or two of serious theo logical reading (he still likes Reinhold Niebuhr best) before office work begins. Kennedy heads the fastest-growing area in his church; with his "bishop's cabinet" of nine superintendents, he heads 700 ministers and 460 churches, and his lay membership has grown from 143,000 to 270,000 in twelve years...
...Premier Theo Lefevre called in the rectors of Belgium's four universities, ostensibly to talk about nuclear research but actually to discuss the strike. From that point on, the rectors acted as mediators, helped both sides to retreat from impossible positions. The government succeeded in getting the doctors to end the strike before resuming negotiations on the new health-insurance law that had provoked the walkout...
...hours of wrangling, the talks broke down. The strikers tried an ultimatum; they even threatened to stop emergency hospital service. That was it. The government angrily announced that it would start drafting physicians. Once in uniform, the doctors would work when and where they were told to. Said Premier Theo Lefevre: "We will take all measures necessary to prevent the situation from worsening still more...