Word: winners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reason is not for lack of trying. In 1959, a committee set up by Congress held an international competition, received 574 entries and picked as the winner a design by William Pedersen and Bradford Tilney, who proposed eight huge cantilevered concrete slabs bearing passages from F.D.R.'s speeches. It was dubbed "instant Stonehenge," after Britain's famous Druid ruins, received a panning from the public and the press and pained reactions from the Roosevelt family. Earlier this year, the committee decided to try again, this time without a competition. After considering the work of 15 architects, it unanimously...
...both, and an Oscar winner to boot, although there was no doubt that the award was at least partly a consolation prize from Hollywood sentimentalists who thought Julie should have got the film role in Fair Lady...
...other hand, Cerf was so positive that Stanley Wolpert's Nine Hours to Rama, a novel based on the assassination of Gandhi, would be a 1962 winner that he boosted the ad budget from $10,000 to nearly $30,000. It sold a disappointing 12,000 copies...
...Lester G. Maddox and Republican Howard H. (Bo) Callaway. The deadlock, created when neither candidate gained an absolute majority in the general election, must be broken. But the way in which the Court has decided to settle the contest means that the candidate with fewer votes may emerge the winner, a result hardly consistent with some of the Court's other recent rulings...
...Harvard freshmen, led by double winner Keith Coburn, clobbered the Plebes...