Word: england
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kennedy's fortunes burgeoned almost as rapidly. He bought a chain of 31 small New England movie houses, and by 1928 his maneuverings in show business brought him control of the Keith-Albee-Orpheum chain. He went to Hollywood, spent 32 furious months investing in the movies, and came away about $5 million richer...
During the war years, the first blows of what Ted Kennedy called "some awful curse" began falling. Joe Jr., whom the ambassador was quite consciously raising to be President, died when his plane exploded over England in 1944. At the same time, Jack lay in a Boston naval hospital recuperating from injuries suffered as a result of the sinking of PT109. A few weeks later, daughter Kathleen's husband, the Marquess of Hartington, died leading an infantry charge in Normandy. Kathleen was to be killed four years later in a plane crash in France. A continuing heartbreak for Rose...
...prisoners and suppression of human rights in Greece, the democratically ruled countries of Europe will suspend the birthplace of democracy from any further participation in the 18-nation organization. Among the supporters of the action is Greece's exiled King Constantine, who this month visited both Denmark and England in an effort to encourage even stronger opposition to the military-backed regime of Premier George Papadopoulos...
...exuberant traveler, Voltaire spent two happy years exiled in England, almost three as court intellectual in Prussia. And wherever he went, he tirelessly conducted his guerrilla warfare against royal and ecclesiastical superpower, not excluding the Church of England and, finally, his failed Philosopher-King Frederick...
...author is not a member of the CRIMSON. He is a senior associated with Leverett House. He travelled to England last summer and there observed...