Word: younger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wish & Fact. Many Republicans-influenced perhaps by wish as much as fact-continued to believe that Rocky dreams privately of still greater enjoyment and satisfaction in Washington. Rockefeller's family even inclined to that view. "I remind you," noted Nelson's younger brother, Arkansas' Governor Winthrop, "that women and politicians have the right to change their minds." Maryland's Governor Spiro Agnew was more certain than ever that Rockefeller would run. Agnew's candidate for Vice President: California's Governor Reagan...
Pearson plans to sit tight for a while and watch Stanfield in action. Then he will decide whether, at 70, he wants to confirm his leadership by calling new elections (he has until the fall of 1970) or convene his own party convention and let power pass to a younger leader...
Flop Society. Announcing her candidacy for the congressional seat vacated last June by the death of Representative J. Arthur Younger, Shirley -whose second husband owns an experimental and commercial oyster farm-told a news conference: "Our country is in deep trouble. The Great Society has become a Great Flop." Although she dodged specific questions with her famous dimpled smile, she did offer some strong general opinions on two inescapable issues. "It is not progress for the largest, strongest military power in the world to be mired down in an apparently endless war with one of the smallest and weakest countries...
...Hitler-frustrated German musicians who wanted to brush up on their Stravinsky, Bartok, Hindemith and Schoenberg. In succeeding years, Darmstadt focused on the development of serial techniques in Schoenberg and Webern, and gave exposure to the works of such post-serial experimenters as Edgar Varese and Olivier Messiaen. Soon younger composers-notably Hans Werner Henze and Pierre Boulez-began unveiling compositions of their own at the festival's semiprivate "workshop" concerts...
...fifth birthday, his parents were separated. Mother, who remains a major influence in his life (Geneen's father is now dead), sent him to a succession of boarding schools and summer camps. At Suffield (Conn.) School, the older boys got Springfield rifles for military drill while the younger ones got only wooden ones. "So there I was," he recalls, "the smallest kid in the school, carrying my little wooden rifle with one hand, and trying to keep my puttees up with the other...