Word: truman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Outside the church nearly 1,000,000 people clogged the streets, at times halting the procession until police could clear a passage. Cheers greeted Constantine, the bereaved Queen Mother, and former U.S. President Harry Truman who, 17 years ago to the day, had proposed the Truman Doctrine that saved Greece from Communism. But the loudest applause went to Cyprus' Archbishop Makarios. Detaching himself from the procession as it waited to convey the body to burial at Tatoi Palace, north of Athens, Makarios walked slowly around Constitution Square, waving at the crowd and acknowledging their cries for Enosis-union...
...Mary Keyserling, 53, economist, wife of Harry Truman's economic adviser Leon Keyserling. Job: director, Women's Bureau, Labor Department...
...nicest thing about "Seven Days" is its realism. President March looks like a cross between Eisen-hower and Johnson; he acts like a Stevenson-Kennedy who talks like Truman. Then there are great shots of aircraft carriers, Sabre jets, and neat armored half-tracks that soldiers drive like ponies in an old-fashioned Western...
Midst laurels stood: ex-Astronaut John Glenn, 42, named winner of the $5,000 George Washington Award, highest honor of the Valley Forge Freedoms Foundation, "for inspiring all Americans to actively espouse resolute, responsible and reverent patriotism"; James Baldwin, Truman Capote, Ralph Ellison, Hans Hofmann, Louis Kahn, Bernard Malamud and John Updike among the 14 architects, painters and writers named to The National Institute of Arts and Letters; former New York Republican Governor Thomas Dewey, 61, in whose honor the 559-mile New York State Thruway will now be known as Dewey Thruway...
...when it comes to figuring out what makes a trend, the menswear men only wish they knew. It can be a President - but not necessarily. Ex-Haberdasher Harry Truman completed the apotheosis of the wild sports shirt worn outside the trousers, but otherwise excited no sartorial emulation. Jack Kennedy did. "Suddenly everybody wanted to look like he came from Harvard, or like he thought everyone looked at Harvard," says Grossman. And it is hoped that the floundering hat industry, for which Kennedy's wind-blown look did nothing, will revive under the ten-gallon-Texan inspiration of President Johnson...