Word: williams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...individual whose highly eloquent defense of conservatism has remained a constant source of delight to many of us, the man who has mastered the art of the intelligent putdown: William F. Buckley...
There was good reason for both exhilaration and apprehension. As they began their pioneering journey, Astronauts Frank Borman, James Lovell and William Anders were pushed into space by a rocket that had never before been used in manned flight. Only minutes after they were propelled out of earth orbit toward the moon, they were farther than man has ever been from his home planet (the previous record of 850 miles was set by the US. Gemini 11 mission...
...positions that he might later regret, Nixon in public confined himself largely to cautious or symbolic gestures. His conference with Republican leaders was little more than that. He had failed to say much about the United Nations during the campaign, so last week he took incoming Secretary of State William Rogers and Henry Kissinger, who will be the White House assistant for national security affairs, on a visit to the United Nations for a conference with Secretary-General U Thant. Early in the new Administration, Nixon intends to make a good-will trip to Western Europe for conferences with...
...which in its final form did not fit either the Catholic or the Lutheran liturgy. In English-speaking countries, the wide-ranging appeal of such performances threatens even Handel's oratorio Messiah as a holiday staple. "If you want a full house now," says the London Times Critic William Mann, "you put on Bach's St. Matthew Passion...
Exactly one year after it began, the eleven-union strike against the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner is technically a stalemate. Publisher George R. Hearst Jr., 41, grandson of the crusading William Randolph, still directs a staff of strike breakers inside his boarded-up building. Behind other barricades just a block away, some 50 strikers still gather each day to dispense food and subsistence checks, plot strategy and pounce hopefully on every rumor of Hearst's troubles. Actually, the strike is over-and the clear winner is George Hearst...