Word: began
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whiffenpoof & Hair Spray. The guests began arriving at 10 p.m.: Lord Charles Spencer-Churchill (son of the Duke of Marlborough) of England, the Winston Guests of New York, the Gary Coopers of California, the Nicholas du Fonts of Delaware, General Motors' President John F. Gordon, Chrysler Corp.'s President Lester ("Tex") Colbert, as well as the bejeweled cream of Boston, Philadelphia and Palm Beach society. They promenaded-past 35 car parkers, 16 security men and a formally attired plumber and electrician-through the heavily screened men's locker room into the reception room, where 18-year...
...journey began in the hot desert country around Hyderabad. Last week it ended, 1,500 miles distant in the cold, bleak hills near the Khyber Pass. Traveling in a sleek, air-conditioned train named Pak Jamhuriat (Pakistan Democracy), Field Marshal Mohammed Ayub Khan, 52, barnstormed the land, urging citizens to go to the polls in support of his new conception called "basic democracies...
...arson have terrorized the African settlements in the countryside around modern Lusaka (pop. 70,000). One native woman died in agony after thugs sprinkled her with gasoline and set her afire. Gangs roamed the countryside burning 23 huts in six weeks and leaving five more Africans dead. It began after the fledgling United National Independence Party tested its strength with a call to all Africans to boycott the municipal beer halls. When this failed, the arson wave began against African families who refused to support the beer-hall...
...part of his year's work. He helped three friends write books on subjects as diverse as phenomenology, Socrates and sea power. He tackled five major translations, including a 600-page history of German literature and two German plays (he has four more in the works). And he began organizing an advanced institute for U.S. secondary-school German teachers, which Stanford will conduct in West Germany this summer with Morgan's teaching help...
...Live With It." In many another U.S. city Pamela would be shunted off to an institution. Not so in Atlanta schools, which integrate blind children (161 this year) with sighted students in a showcase program that began in 1954. Impetus came from one father of a blind daughter: Robert Hogg, a beer wholesaler, who faced up to his problem by launching the Foundation for Visually Handicapped Children. Hogg's group today spends $20,000 a year giving free training to blind pre-schoolers throughout Georgia. Purpose: to help parents prepare the children for as normal a life as possible...