Word: vincent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shaky start. In Tosca's last act, the guns of the firing squad failed to go off and the hapless hero was obliged to keel over in dead silence. Building maintenance was just as makeshift. One rainy night, to dramatize the need for repairs to the roof, Mayor Vincent Impellitteri was given a pair of tickets for seats directly under a dripping leak...
...Vincent Conroy, director of the Center for Field Studies at the Graduate School of Education, said yesterday that a Boston committee which is studying desegregation training programs that would be financed under the Civil Rights Act may pool its efforts with the suburban towns...
Europe of the Past. They were telling retorts, and they persuaded some important Frenchmen. Elder Statesman Vincent Auriol, 81, whom De Gaulle recently had flown to Paris in his presidential Caravelle for medical treatment after a fall, turned on his benefactor to endorse Mitterrand. Jean Monnet, architect of the Common Market, backed Mitterrand as well, because he found De Gaulle's idea of Europe the "Europe of centuries past, a rebirth of the nationalist spirit that has brought tragedy to France and Europe." Even De Gaulle's first-ballot, right-wing opponent, Lawyer Tixier-Vignancour, joined the other...
...Victory or Westminster Abbey!" cried Admiral Nelson at the Battle of Cape St. Vincent in 1797. He knew that in the monumental heap of well-chiseled stone and marble lay the heroes of his nation. An Unknown Soldier from World War I lies beneath the Abbey's roof. In the rear of Henry VII's centuries-old chapel glows a brilliant, stained-glass window reflecting the Royal Air Force's stand during the Battle of Britain. But to the enduring honor of England, more than military pomp and glory is recognized. The Abbey is also a national...
...Harvard conference on metropolitan education last week, every speaker emphasized that cities and suburbs will have to cooperate to solve the cities' school problems. "Political boundaries shouldn't inhibit us," said Vincent F. Conroy, director of the Center for Field Studies of the Graduate School of Education. "We have to challenge the private-school aspect of suburban schools...