Word: traced
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...late President Kennedy's is the most sought-after autograph today-the more so because so many of his signed letters were not really signed. As President, Kennedy authorized certain secretaries to imitate his signature, and used mechanical robots to trace his name. Highest-priced J.F.K. item so far is the letter he wrote a friend from boarding school at the age of 15, signed "Smuttily yours, Jack Kennedy," which was sold to Movie Producer David L. Wolper two months...
...mother tongue had already begun its centuries-long elaboration. Successive waves of invaders-the Romans, the Anglo-Saxons, the Norsemen, the Normans-all added new words, constructions and usages to the pot. Beneath the weight of this hybridization, the island's forerunner language, Celtic, vanished almost without a trace...
...White Paper convincingly demonstrates the tight control exercised by Hanoi over the war in South Viet Nam. It does not trace specific attacks like those at Pleiku and Quinhon directly back to Hanoi, but there is little doubt that Ho Chi Minh and his North Vietnamese aides approved them. As the report summarizes: "The government in Saigon and the Government of the United States both hoped that the danger could be met within South Viet Nam itself. The leaders in Hanoi chose to respond with greater violence. Clearly the restraint of the past was not providing adequately for the defense...
...professor of Law, and Stanley Kats, assistant professor of History, will give an upper-level Soc Sci course on "civil rights in American history." Kats speculated last night that the course "will proably not place as much emphasis on contemporary issues as people would like." The first semester will trace the history of civil rights to the Civil War, and the second semester will deal primarily with the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments...
...September 1809, his affairs in confusion, the governor headed back to Washington. On the way, according to a traveling companion, he twice attempted suicide. Then one night, while Lewis was lodged in an isolated cabin on Tennessee's sinister Natchez Trace, two shots rang out. In the morning he was found dead. Suicide? Murder? Nobody knows, but Author Dillon thinks it was murder. When Lewis stopped for the night, he was carrying more than $100; in the morning his pockets contained 25?. He was buried in the woods, and his grave was all but forgotten. To his family...