Word: adolphe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Another top candidate was Kennedy's closest adviser on Latin American affairs, Manhattan Lawyer Adolph A. Berle, 65, a State Department braintruster for Franklin Roosevelt, who was an Assistant Secretary of State (1938-44) dealing with Latin American affairs. Berle had objections based on the job itself. The Assistant Secretary for Latin America, says Berle, ranks below two Under Secretaries, two Deputy Under Secretaries, an Assistant Secretary for Policy Planning, a Counselor, an Assistant Secretary for Congressional Relations and a Legal Adviser. "I suggest," said Berle, "that there is here too wide a gap between the Secretary of State...
...book by Garson Kanin; music by Jule Styne; lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green) has certainly its good things-though not enough to make it a good musical. Its top draws, Phil Silvers and Nancy Walker, greatly compensate for how little else-actually, just the best lyrics-is top drawer. But other things prove of use; and the general setup-Silvers as a little man aching to be a big shot and inducing some old slot-machine racketeers to muscle in on jukeboxes-has a promisingly raffish...
...Petersen Elder, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences; Ernest Brooks, Jr. of New York City; David K.E. Bruce of Washington, D.C.; Huntington Cairns of Washington, D.C.; R. Keith Kane of New York City; Paul Mellon, founder of the Old Dominion Foundation, of Washington, D.C.; Adolph W. Schmidt of Pittsburgh, Pa.; and Stoddard M. Stevens of New York City...
...fact, apartheid is a combination of hatred, , fear, and ignorance. Although its propagandists, some of whom greatly admired Adolph Hitler, claim that it means "equal, but Separate" opportunity for the non-Whites in their own areas; in reality it means discrimination against the non-Whites in every sphere of economic, political, and social activity...
...team, they recall witty Broadway Writers (On the Town) Betty Comden and Adolph Green, who last year appeared in a highly successful show of their own material. But, more subtly, Nichols and May deal in slightly distorted reproductions of accurate sounds, and the effect, which depends upon audience recognition, is subcutaneous. Their material-never written down-is charged with excellent one-line jokes, whether a disk jockey tells a movie starlet that Spencer Tracy was supposed to play the title role in the film biography of Gertrude Stein, or a playwright called Alabama Gross describes his heroine as someone...