Word: williams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...former draftee, I know only too well that the present draft system is imperfect and that servicemen are greatly underpaid. But is a highly paid volunteer army really the answer? I think not-the opinion of my political hero William Buckley to the contrary...
...pains in framing his inaugural address. After maintaining a low silhouette since the election, he was anxious to set the right note with which to begin the exercise of leadership. The process began several weeks ago with requests for drafts from three of his speech writers and idea men, William Safire, Patrick Buchanan and Raymond Price. Nixon himself had read every previous inaugural address, picking as his favorites Lincoln's second inaugural, both of Wilson's, F.D.R.'s first three, the Kennedy speech and?surprisingly?the baroque oratory of Democrat James K. Polk. A favorite Nixon motto is "Forward Together...
...annual Harvard Concerto Contest are Norman Letvin, who played the Premiere Rhapsody for clarinet by Debussy, and Ronald Takvorian, who performed Prokofieff's Third Piano Concerto, Both winners will appear as soloists in a forthcoming HRO concert. The other participants were Philip Kraft; Richard Metzler; Jane Meyers; Michael Reisman; William Spady; Jonathan Taylor; and Taite S. Walkenen...
...William White, 30 and black, goes to one of Harlem Hospital's community clinics, where his daily methadone dosage is being stepped up to his ultimate maintenance level. He is in a pilot program designed to see whether the early hospitalization...
Live Coals. Unfortunately, the Indian women and their men brought some unadmirable traits to one another. Traditionally responsible for the torture of prisoners in their tribes, the women were capable of incredible cruelty. When Colonel William Crawford, a friend of George Washington's, was captured in 1782, it was the Indian women who pelted him with live coals, jabbed him with burning poles and, after a warrior had torn off the prisoner's scalp with his teeth, poured a shovelful of live coals onto his exposed skull while he was still alive. Even so, says O'Meara...