Word: falling
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Loyal Rockefeller partisans refused to see the withdrawal as a retreat. They dreamed headily that somewhere along the line Dick Nixon might stub his toe, that the Administration's gambles on foreign policy might fall apart and that delegates would call for a Rockefeller draft at the Chicago convention. Beyond that they had another dream: that somehow Nixon might get defeated in 1960. Presumably that would finish Nixon and open up to Rockefeller the vista...
...military service in the Low Countries, fell in love with Flemish art, and got in the habit of collecting it. Wilhelm's finest trophy was Jacob Blessing the Sons of Joseph, which Rembrandt painted in 1656, the year of his financial collapse and the beginning of his happy fall from worldly fame...
Thomas D. Bolles, Director of Athletics, will take a leave of absence for the Fall Term next year to attend the summer Olympics in Rome. Bolles was notified during the Christmas recess that his request to travel abroad with his wife and daughter had been granted by the Corporation...
...Cambridge City Council, chosen in last fall's municipal election, will take its first official action this morning when, following inauguration ceremonies at 10 a.m., it begins the job of selecting one of its nine members as Mayor for the succeeding two-year term...