Word: walke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Around the L.B.J. ranch, folks stroll along "Friendship Walks." They are paths of cement squares inscribed with the signatures of the rich and the famous who have caught the President's fancy on visits to the 400-acre spread. The walk, a sort of presidential version of Grauman's Chinese Theater forecourt, already includes the names of John Kennedy, all seven original U.S. astronauts, and Germany's Chancellor Ludwig Erhard. Last week, in a favorite ranch ritual, Lyndon added two new ones as Mexico's President-elect Gustavo Díaz Ordaz and Wife Guadalupe stooped...
Still unwilling to settle such noneconomic matters as longer washup periods and the allocation of overtime, members of Ford local unions continued to walk out. The company closed 24 plants from Alabama to Minnesota, laid off 33,500 nonstrikers to bring the total of men out of work...
...became clear that Labor could form the government," he said. "My wife and I were speculating, rather sardonically, on the numbers of people there must be sitting beside their telephones at that moment, hoping for a call from Downing Street. On Sunday afternoon I went for a long walk, ruminating on the same subject. That the telephone might ring never entered my mind for a moment, but almost the minute I finished my walk the phone went. Could I present myself at Downing Street in an hour, and please to come in by the back door? I went round...
Nowhere in the world compares to Harvard Square for sheer arrogance density. Tens, hundreds, countless young men walk about Cambridge contentedly bearing the secret of their own grandeur. Perhaps their judgment is accurate, perhaps a vast ironic joke undermines the very core of existence of the University--but for some reason or other nearly every Harvard man considers himself the top man of his private totem pole...
Some are simple tributes to a beloved figure, like the one by Barry Spacks: By this to remember, this spring again As we walk by the river, the tidal...