Word: twelfths
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While their husbands were hurrying around Chicago at top political speed attending to sterner G.O.P. Convention affairs, the wives of eleven Republican bigwigs, plus the daughter of a twelfth, climbed into fancy period gowns for a "Great Ladies" lunch at the Conrad Hil ton Hotel. Guests of honor at the costume party were Mamie Eisenhower, who saw herself impersonated, and Pat Nixon, who could dream that she would join the roster of the dozen Republican First Ladies whose inaugural finery was reproduced for the occasion...
...stock market perked up last week after the Federal Reserve Board made its long-awaited reduction in margin requirements from 90% to 70% (see Essay). The news came after the market had declined for the twelfth time in 13 trading sessions, sent the Dow-Jones industrial average up 14.97 points in two days to close at 616.73, ahead 6.86 for the week. Wall Street wondered just how long the rally would last. The market had dropped 45.15 points during the 13-day period, and last week's rise was interpreted as the response of increased investor buying power...
These are but a few of the factors to be reckoned with in essaying a successful staging. The current production at the American Shakespeare Festival has a great many virtues. Fortunately, director Jack Landau seems to have gotten most of the nonsense out of his system in his Twelfth Night and has, for a change, approached Antony--given its cast--with a welcome sense of responsibility. Enormously aided by Tharon Musser's lighting, by Rouben Ter-Arutunian's basic but effective settings and stunning costumes (which range from a black-and-gold tent-like shroud in which Cleopatra commits suicide...
After Kozlov put in a plug for peaceful coexistence and confirmed that U-2 Pilot Francis Powers would be given a public trial, the three strolled to the drawing room to listen to a visiting celebrity, Pianist Van Cliburn. As Cliburn launched into Liszt's Twelfth Rhapsody, Mikoyan put a fatherly hand on the shoulder of U.S. Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson's daughter Sherry. When Cliburn swung into some lively Russian songs, Mikoyan joined in the chorus...
...choosing The Tempest and Twelfth Night to start their sixth game, the American Shakespeare Festival led out an ace-king--for the first is the profoundest of the Bard's late romances, and the second is the finest of his comedies. The ace proved a winner, but the king unfortunately got trumped...