Word: woolsey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, is twice as old as the Dixie. Moreover, Rickover, the father of U.S. naval nuclear power, seems quite likely to outlast the ship. Convinced that the admiral, soon to turn 80, is not about to be slowed down by barnacles, Acting Navy Secretary R. James Woolsey last week announced that Rickover had been appointed to yet another two-year term. That will make him a six-decade salt...
DIED. Charles Woolsey Cole, 71, former president of Amherst College (1946-60); of a heart attack; on a cruise ship off Los Angeles. The youngest man ever to head Amherst, Cole introduced a core curriculum required for all students and greatly enlarged the college's endowment. From 1961 to 1964 he served as Ambassador to Chile...
...Assistant Secretary of Defense Paul Warnke, his rumpled seersucker jacket slung over his shoulder and his face flushed in the breezeless, 101° heat. He was followed by two former Deputy Defense Secretaries, Paul Nitze and Cyrus Vance, former Secretary of the Air Force Harold Brown, Washington Attorneys James Woolsey and Walter Slocombe, Brookings Institution Fellow Barry Blechman and Columbia University Political Scientist Lynn Davis...
...1920s, when not only classics but such modern books as James Joyce's Ulysses and D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover were banned, an anticensorship movement arose to defend frankness in works of art. Ulysses was declared nonpornographic by District Court Judge John Woolsey in 1933. Another major barrier fell when Lady Chatterley's Lover was allowed to circulate in the U.S. in 1959. But the key constitutional case had come two years before in the Roth decision...
...Yale undergraduate orchestra receives between $5,000-$6,000 from their music department every year. The student group rehearses and performs in Woolsey Hall and is not charged for the use of this space. The Yale group also takes a tour each year. Recent highlights include concerts in Carnegie Hall and a performance in Washington...