Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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COLUMBIA, Mo. June 8--For the first time in 29 years, Harry S. Truman won't be coming to this mid-Missouri city for the commencement ceremonies of the University of Missouri, and observers here feel they know the reason why--Truman is going to be in Cambridge, Mass. instead, to get the Harvard honorary degree he has so long desired...
...Truman has always considered the Missouri commencement an event not to be missed, one second only to his annual birthday party at the Hotel Muehlbach in Kansas City. Only last week he was again preparing the tribute to Missouri's World War I dead that he has voiced at every M.U. commencement since...
Died. Dr. Truman B. Douglass, 67, an inspirational leader of the 2,000,000-member United Church of Christ arid vice president of Christian Life and Mission for the National Council of Churches; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Convinced that "a church immobilized by denominational division just doesn't make sense," Douglass strove for a quarter-century to unite factionalized Protestantism. His most visible success came in 1957, with the merger of the Congregational Christian Churches and the Evangelical and Reform Church...
Along with perennial front-runner Truman, other favorites for this year's awards are poetess Marianne Moore, former secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall, and New York's Mayor John V. Lindsay...
Reports from Cambridge say that Harvard administrators-significantly-have refused to squelch the rumors of Truman's coming visit...