Word: graying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Scotland on Nov. 3, 1909. His father, a machinist, took the family to the U.S. in 1911, but returned to Scotland in a few months, after Mrs. Reston fell ill. They settled in Alexandria, Dumbartonshire, in a "but and ben"-two rooms in a row of brick tenements on Gray Street, near the factory. The back parlor was used only on occasions such as Christmas and other holidays; otherwise the family lived in the front room, Mrs. Reston cooking over a grate, the two children, Jimmy and his elder sister (by four years) Joan, sleeping crosswise at the foot...
Also, Charles F. Adams '32, chairman of the corporation committee of A Program for Harvard College, Theodore Chase '34, vice chairman of the Harvard Fund Council, and Gray Thoron '38, former secretary-treasurer of the Harvard Club of Austin, Texas...
...bids to become Harvard's first 14-ft. pole vaulter, Blodgett will face opposition like Don "Tarzan" Bragg, who has cleared 15 ft., 9 in. indoors; Jerry Welbourn, another 15-footer; and ex-Penn star John Gray, one of the best the Ivy League has produced. Blodgett, coholder of the University indoor mark at 13 ft., 6 in., will be going after Tom Ford's record...
...transformations into lines and combinations of lines. This might be the point to ask: Does the piece have anything to say? The formal, declamatory style is not particularly friendly, nor are the most ingratiating sections meant for casual listening. I found Threni frequently affecting, although in parts the gray was unrelieved. More hearings might easily produce a different view...
...group were Secretary of State Christian Herter and Under Secretary C. Douglas Dillon; Defense Secretary Thomas Gates and General Nathan Twining, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Atomic Energy Commission Chairman John McCone; Presidential Assistants (for national security) Gordon Gray and (for science) George Kistiakowsky. They were in rare unanimity on a general proposition. They intended to put it to the President that 1) the U.S. ought to continue the 14-month-old talks with Britain and the U.S.S.R. at Geneva on how to inspect and control any permanent test ban; 2) the U.S. should not promise to extend...