Word: graying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WASHINGTON, D.C.--The Peace Corps occupies three floors of a fairly typical, utterly unimaginative office building in downtown Washington. Through square windows set regularly into the light gray stone you can see Connecticut Avenue and a few of the neighbors--the Chamber of Commerce and the ICA. About two blocks away, across a park that is the home of a number of pigeons, squirrels, and a rather weatherbeaten statue of Andrew Jackson astride his favorite thoroughbred, is the White House...
...rate, the Civil War is a perfectly viable solution: the Trojans are the Confederate Gray, and the Greeks are the Union Blue. Appropriately, Robert O'Hearn designed for Troy a neo-Doric portice such as often found in Southern architecture; and, for the encamped Greeks, a covered wagon and pup tents, complete with offstage harmonica...
Within the spectrum of comedy, Troilus offers much latitude. From this production there emerges a satirical approach, which, though not quite consistently applied, is eminently workable. Carrie Nye's Cressida, first in a lovely gray gown with salmon stole and parasol and later in sultry red velvet, is a southern belle-wether of wantonness (I half expected to hear the Duke of Mantua singing "La donna e mobile" in the wings). And Hiram Sherman brings the suave relish of a Kentucky colonel to the role of Pandarus...
Born. To Edmund Sixtus Muskie, 47, Maine's first popularly elected Democratic U.S. Senator and previously its first Catholic Governor, and Jane Frances Gray Muskie, 34, Republican-bred former Down East dress-shop clerk: their fifth child, second son; in Washington...
...ripsnorting shivaree. The Old Gray Mare Band of Brownwood blatted out The Eyes of Texas. Diva May Peterson sang Put On Your Old Gray Bonnet, and the crowd stomped and whistled and let out an unearthly rebel yell. Then Miriam Amanda Ferguson, all gussied up in a black satin dress, stood up and took the oath as Governor of Texas...