Word: whirls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only regret is that Skow passed a negative judgment on Salinger's desire for privacy. Some writers run for public office, others enjoy the social whirl, others get into scrapes with the police. This is their business. But a man who asks nothing but to be left in peace to attack the blank pages in his typewriter should be able to do just that without being sniped at by a Swados or a Skow...
...mustache bristling, Ayub was terse and blunt. "We naturally take deepest interest," he told President Kennedy, "in what goes on in this country-and especially what you do, sir." Then he strode to Kennedy's new bubble-topped Lincoln and plunged into a giddy, four-day whirl unrivaled in recent capital history...
...plucked from his job as a Columbia law professor by President Kennedy last February to head the SEC. A Phi Beta Kappa with a staunch New Deal background, Cary served with the OSS in Rumania and Yugoslavia during World War II. No stranger to the Wall Street whirl, he worked part time during his Columbia days as special counsel to a Wall Street law firm...
...Leningrad Kirov Opera Ballet Company, happily joined the packed Covent Garden house in its energetic, foot-stomping applause. After the performance, they bolted from their seats in the stalls to a party with the dancers in the hall's well-named Crush Bar, then continued the marathon whirl at a candlelit coming-out ball given by Hungarian-born Textile Manufacturer Miki Sekers, finally got back to Kensington Palace just before dawn...
Baggy-eyed from a whirl of trips to Bangkok, New Delhi, Ankara, Oslo and Geneva, Secretary of State Dean Rusk turned up at the dedication of the John Foster Dulles Memorial Library and Research Center at the headquarters of the National Council of Churches in Manhattan, recalled with wonder the unflagging energy of his late predecessor. Said Rusk, a State Department sub-Cabinet officer when Dulles negotiated the Japanese Peace Treaty in 1951: "We assigned staff officers to him in rotation because single officers couldn't keep...