Word: wente
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Spiro Agnew Show, which seemed at first to be a one-shot special, may have gone weekly. Exactly seven days after the Vice President telecast his Des Moines attack on TV newscasters and commentators, he went on the air again, this time to flay the New York Times and the Washington Post Co. Unlike the premiere, the second installment, from George Wallace's own Montgomery, Ala., did not get network coverage. But it was telecast, live or on tape, in some cities, including New York and Washington (where it was carried by the Post's WTOP...
...mother was related to the Ford clan and sister to J. L. Hudson, founder of Detroit's biggest department store. His mother helped to found Detroit's first art museum, and she took him East with her when she went to buy Early American furniture. Then Robert Tannahill became an art patron and collector himself. Every year he traveled abroad to the art centers of Europe. At home he helped struggling young artists educate themselves and find a market for their work. Under no pressure to work, under no need to meet a payroll, he gave where...
...occupied homeland in 1941 and resolved to get a medical education in the U.S. Turned down by seven schools, he took the advice of his father, a former mayor of Athens: "If you don't get what you want at first, try for something better." So young Cotzias went after the best, was accepted at Harvard Medical School-probably, Cotzias suggests, because no one there minded his fractured English-and was graduated cum laude. After training in neurology at the top places, Massachusetts General and Rockefeller University hospitals, Dr. Cotzias became a full-time researcher at the Brookhaven...
...working poor, Hollister and Palmer found that welfare benefits have generally risen faster than prices. The average monthly check in the program to aid families with dependent children rose 18% during the two years that ended last June. Meanwhile, the consumer price index went...
...diffusion plants owned by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. For a time, at least, France would become dependent on U.S. fuel. The government announcement angered French atomic workers, who face the loss of 2,600 jobs because of cutbacks. Last week almost all of the 31,000 atomic workers went on strike in protest...