Word: alma
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tragically, this library will now be constructed much sooner than anticipated. It will perpetuate indefinitely the complicated tie between John F. Kennedy and his alma mater...
...latest trip seemed no exception. Traveling on a 30-day tourist visa, the professor spent most of his time touring the capitals of Soviet Asia, including Tashkent, Samarkand and Alma Ata. Back in Moscow, he stopped off for a drink at the apartment of U.S. Minister-Counselor Walter J. Stoessel. From there, an embassy chauffeur drove Barghoorn back to the Hotel Metropole at about 7:15 p.m. on Oct. 31. Then he disappeared from view, but since Barghoorn was scheduled to fly to Warsaw the next day, he was not missed...
...sprawled behind a field house, puffing cigarettes and listening to Coach Jack ("The Barber") Luiselli. "When you hit the bums," Luiselli growled, "you got to put them down for good. Look, two touchdowns isn't the end of the world. I don't believe in all that alma mater stuff, but you guys are from Charlestown and you play football because you love the game. Let's go." The Townies shuffled back toward the dusty field. "One more thing," Luiselli yelled after them. "If you don't win this one, I'm cuttin...
...Yale started at Martha's Vineyard, Mass., where the Brewsters and their five children spend their summer sailing. A neighbor and fellow sailor at Vineyard Haven was Whitney Griswold. Becoming good friends, the Old Grad and the President ribbed each other unmercifully. "What are you doing to my alma mater?" Brewster would roar, joshing Griswold about student riots at New Haven, losing football teams or his presidential speeches. When the rumor spread that Brewster was under consideration as next dean of the Harvard Law School, Griswold in 1960 offered Brewster Yale's provost job. "The idea came...
...Education section for nine years, then moved to Foreign News, and some three years ago took over the Art section. Among his 14 cover stories were two perceptive pieces on the intellectual in America (Thornton Wilder, Jan. 12, 1953; Jacques Barzun, June 11, 1956), a fascinating report on his alma mater (Nathan Pusey, March 1, 1954), and a sensitive essay on a brilliant architect (Le Corbusier...