Word: thompson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...young Californian named Scott Thompson was facing Army induction in just two weeks; yet he seemed peculiarly elated when he phoned a U.C.L.A. coed. "Hey," he shouted, "did you see the papers? Do you want to get married?" The girl did not, no matter what the papers said. So Thompson-unless he could find someone else in a hurry-was doomed to enter the Army. But some 340,000 other men of draft age-whose girls had once said yes-were suddenly free to stay home. A presidential order last week exempted all married men from induction, giving them...
With so mucn party strength in Quebec, Caouette never could reconcile himself to the fact that the nominal leader of the party remained English-speaking Robert Thompson from English-speaking Alberta. Caouette broke from Thompson, set up his own "national party to protect French-Canadians in every province." But though the 5.5 million French-Canadians are increasingly militant in their demands for more attention, not too many are apt to follow the demagogic Caouette. In fact, Caouette failed to convince even his own Quebec M.P.s: nearly half of them announced they were sticking with Thompson...
William Orpen, and A. Wordsworth Thompson's Civil War battlescape, Cannonading on the Potomac. The Green Room's watered-silk walls support a gallery of 15 oils, including David Martin's reposed Ben Franklin watched over by a bust of Isaac Newton, and Henry Inman's winsome 1842 portrait of Angelica Van Buren, President Van Buren's daughter-in-law, with a view of Hiram Powers' bust of the President himself in the background...
Greenwald's visit to the policy meeting of the YDCHR was unexpected. Also at the session was Rep. Homans, state representative from Cambridge, who discussed some problems in state highway construction, and the controversial speaker of the House, John Thompson...
Dean Jose Luis Sert of the Faculty of Design announced last week that Benjamin Thompson, Cambridge architect and planning adviser for schools and colleges, will be chairman of the Department of Architecture in the School of Design. Mr. Thompson, now a professor of Architecture, was responsible for the conversion of Harvard's 100-years-old Boylston Hall into a Modern Language Center, and for various renovations of older dormitories in Harvard Yard...