Word: weekend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Charles Jackson, 65, melancholy novelist of guilt and frustration; in Manhattan. After striking it rich in 1944 with The Lost Weekend, the story of a classic binge, he had a long dry spell, writing mediocre books about homosexuality and paranoia. His last work was A Second-Hand Life, a novel of nymphomania published...
...salaries of Harvard's teaching fellows will be boosted by 17 to 25 per cent this year, Dean Ford announced over the weekend...
...Minneapolis last weekend a group of about fifteen prominent anti-Administration politicians met to try to tie together what has happened since the convention and what might come about in the future. Among them were a few of the new stars of 1968 like Allard K. Lowenstein, the New Yorker who founded the Dump Johnson campaign and put together a McCarthy-dominated Coalition for an Open Convention last summer with some Kennedy support, Julian Bond of Georgia, and Donald O. Peterson, the Wisconsin delegation chairman who refused to buckle under to Mayor Daley...
...congregation even gave me a couple of going-away parties." George Frein, a St. Louis priest who married an ex-nun in June, has been hired by Archbishop Leo F. Dworschak to teach religious studies in North Dakota. "There has been no hostility at all," says Frein. "The weekend we arrived the pastor stopped over in his golf clothes and welcomed...
...tanks. In Southern California, an area that usually leads the nation in watery accidents, the island of Santa Catalina shimmers enticingly on the horizon, just 24 miles from Los Angeles. "Santa Catalina," says Coast Guard Lieut. Edward McGuire. "You can see it, and the distance seems perfect for a weekend's outing. Everybody makes a try for it, and lots fail: out of gas." In Miami, power-boatmen quickly learned that the local Coast Guard was giving away gas to those whose tanks went dry. "Until some of our skippers got tough and charged a fee," recalls a Coast...