Word: ward
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...miles by dog sled, but those who stay 10,000 days in one place. I believe that all of us have the capacity for one adventure inside us, but great adventure is facing responsibility day after day." That view is echoed by Amherst's Historian John William Ward, who sees something "pathetic and sentimental" in the American adventurer. "Today," he says, "the man who is the real risk taker is anonymous and nonheroic. He is the one trying to make institutions work. What we need is not to go West, but to return eastward, to create excitement and adventure...
...Force One hummed Texas-ward at 31,000 ft., the President naturally fell to jawing with reporters about his health. "I feel like I had a baseball right here in my right side,"he said. This time, though, he was content merely to point to the most celebrated scar since Jenkins' Ear.* What's more, allowed Lyndon Johnson, he is unhappy with his strict diet, begun in August (few starches and fats, no liquor) aimed at trimming his weight down to 187 lbs. When he complains about it to Lady Bird, she retorts...
Then Johnson visited the sailors and marines in Ward 4-C, who had hung a get-well sign from their window, took a two-mile walk, put in a few practice putts, held an impromptu press conference, and signed the $3.2 billion foreign aid bill, with a warning that "accomplishments, not apologies, are what the American people expect." Though the doctors announced that he could check out the next day, Johnson, sounding more and more like his old self, admonished reporters not to predict when he would leave the hospital or go to his Texas ranch...
Married. Christine Keeler, 23, redheaded call girl, whose 1963 stories of life among London's toffs led to the resignation of her occasional lover, Tory War Minister John Profumo, and the suicide of her protector, Osteopath Stephen Ward; and Engineer James Leathermore, 24; in Reading, England...
Since sanctions, then, seem an inadequate threat for Rhodesia and a dismal prospect for all of Central Africa, what policy remains to prevent the solidification of another racist state in Southern Africa? The only possible action which could ward off Rhodesia's declaration of independence an immediate and forceful threat of military intervention. It is unrealistic, however, to expect Britain, whose Conservative Party is split over whether or not to go through with the application of sanctions, to take such decisive action on its own. It is necessary that the initiative come first from the United Nations, and that...