Word: wente
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...five Beethoven sonatas in Carnegie Hall, and the reason is now engraved on vinyl. His interpretation of this late (written five years before the master's death) great two-movement sonata is extremely moving-the first furious buildup dissolving into a tender singing adagio that transcends all that went before...
...What's wrong with a two-time loser? Richard Nixon first went down to defeat in one of the closest races ever recorded. His second loss was to Governor Pat Brown of California who, at that time, was solidly entrenched and supported by an invincible political machine. Defeat was inevitable. The 1966 congressional elections resulted in Republican victories in both the House and Senate. The results were due in large part to the strenuous campaigning of Nixon through some 30 states in a three-month period. Truly a remarkable achievement for a two-time loser...
...Negroes have discovered not only that they are poor but also, even by honky standards, undeservedly so. What began a month ago as a walkout by city employees is now a black-and-white confrontation. Memphis garbage collectors, most of them making $1.80 an hour, went on strike for a 60?-an-hour minimum raise, recognition of their union and a dues checkoff by city hall. Nearly all of Memphis' 1,300 garbage men are black, only three of 13 councilmen are. Mayor Henry Loeb has spurned the strikers' demands. As the dispute escalated, labor solidarity has been...
American colleges and universities have trained men for war since 1819, when a former West Pointer went up to Vermont to found a college (now Norwich University) where military instruction would be part of the curriculum. The idea gained popularity. During the Civil War, Congress voted to provide free land for civilian colleges that agreed to offer military instruction to their students. In 1916, this "land-grant" system of military training was transformed into the present-day Reserve Officer Training Corps...
...Executive Branch is further handicapped, Bundy went on, by the lack of genuine harmony between the President and his bureacracy. This makes it difficult, he said, for there ever to be "sustained, coordinated and energetic" Executive action...