Word: van
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...after Lyndon Johnson announced that he was extending his limited bombing halt to cover all of North Viet Nam. U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker waited a week for South Viet namese tempers to cool-and for the American elections to end. Then he went to work to persuade President Nguyen Van Thieu to agree to send a delegation to Paris. So strained were the sessions that Deputy U.S. Ambassador Samuel Berger, who had been particularly unreceptive to Saigon's demands during earlier talks, had to be packed off to Hawaii. Thieu, under pressure from hard-liners within his own government...
Craig lives with his family in Van Nuys, gets top marks in the tenth grade of Grant High School. His father, a onetime jazz saxophonist, recently gave up his job as an insurance agent to manage his son's business affairs. A precocious student (his IQ is 184), Craig started taking classical piano lessons at nine, switched to jazz at twelve after listening to the cool, cerebral playing of Bill Evans. Soon there were other models: Peterson, Peter Nero, George Shearing. "For a while," Craig admits, "I sounded like those guys, but now it's my own sound...
...prove it, his parents like to recall his days as a political activist. During the 1964 presidential campaign, Craig went to work for the Lyndon Johnson campaign headquarters in Van Nuys. Later, Craig dropped the President a note: "I'll support you again in 1968, if you'll promise to support me in 1988." Sure enough, Craig was invited to the inauguration. When he stepped off the plane back in Los Angeles, half the student body from his school was there to meet him with signs reading "HUNDLEY FOR PRESIDENT-1988." Craig liked that. As he is well...
...What was the name of Buddy's wife on the Dick Van Dyke Show...
...Mona Lisa, temporarily in the Louvre's neighboring Salle des Etats, will be installed next spring in the refurbished gallery formerly known as Salle Van Dyck...