Word: williamsburgs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Overseers will be meeting outside Cambridge for only the second time since the board was established in 1637. The Board met in Washington and in Williamsburg...
Born in the teeming Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, Auerbach was a standout player himself in high school and at George Washington University in Washington. D.C. He watched how his coach, Bill Reinhart, welded a strong team together from the diverse styles practiced around the country. In 1946 Auerbach talked a Washington. D.C., arena owner into sponsoring a pro team in the newly formed Basketball Association of America. "It cost me less than $500 in phone calls to assemble the club." says Auerbach, "and I stuck to Bill Reinhart's theory...
...also objects of genuine beauty. To those with affection for the field, this shortcoming has been especially galling, for there was a time when the city had two of the best collections in the country. Unhappily for New Yorkers, the pioneering collection of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller ended up in Williamsburg, Va., and the collection of Electra Havemeyer Webb became the nucleus of the Shelburne Museum in Vermont...
...says he, "is what you do with it." With his four brothers (Nelson, 54, Laurance, 52, Winthrop, 50, and John D. Ill, 56), David does plenty with Rockefeller wealth. Among them, the brothers are active in some 200 causes, ranging from the Rockefeller Institute for medical research to Colonial Williamsburg. Their generous philanthropies and their Inter national Basic Economy Corp., which underwrites businesslike ventures in developing lands, make it possible for helicopters to spray coffee trees in Brazil, low-cost housing to rise in Chile, astronomers to search the skies from Mount Palomar, textile machinery to hum in the Congo...
...mere stealing of kisses. He blew the family fortune through gambling and wild spending, lost Westover, committed suicide on New Year's Day, 1777. As a French and Indian War colonel, however, he had fought so gallantly that his portrait hangs today in the restored Colonial Capitol in Williamsburg. Most tourists are happily unaware that in the Revolutionary War his sympathies were with George...