Word: torbert
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last Thursday the House of Representatives unanimously passed a resolution, sponsored by one of Kennedy's former roommates, Rep. Torbert H. Macdonald '40 (D-Mass.), to allow the Class to see the film during reunion week...
...second team included Bowditch in the goal; Jim Griswold of Penn and Bill Torbert of Yale at fullbacks; Knapp, Robin Ross of Princeton, and Al Converse of Yale at halfbacks; and Bruce Cohen of Cornell, Bill Hooks of Brown, Teq Iasu of Dartmouth, Njoku and Akuffe at forwards...
Kennedy tried to make up for his illness by determination. In his sophomore year he was sent to Stillman Infirmary diet was too skimpy, he had his roommate Torbert McDonald (now a Congressman) smuggle in steak and frappes. Then Kennedy sneaked out of the infirmary for the time trials. But he failed to qualify...
...mounted police swinging long batons; before the disturbance was quelled, some 500 people were arrested. In Hargeisa, the onetime capital of British Somaliland, crowds stoned British homes and cars, attacked the British consulate. Presumably because of Britain's close ties to the U.S., newly arrived U.S. Ambassador Horace Torbert was stoned out of the town of Galcaio, his Land-Rover narrowly outdistancing a mob of 1,000 men, women and children. In Kenya itself, a Somali tribesman speared a district commissioner, Lieut. Colonel John Balfour, and one mob hauled down the Union Jack...
Lame-Duck Governor Furcolo, who has little affection for Jack Kennedy, made it clear by the terseness of his announcement that he was depressed by having to name Smith, and felt powerless to oppose it. Actually, Kennedy had favored Congressman (and Old Harvard Roommate) Torbert Macdonald for the post, hopeful that Macdonald would be strong enough after the two-year interim appointment to make the race for reelection. But with Furcolo resisting a Macdonald appointment (Massachusetts pols were gossiping that the Governor was trying to hold Kennedy up for a big Administration job), Kennedy decided to settle for Ben Smith...