Word: reunion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Republican Senator Jacob Javits have spoken for Shafer, Scranton has scheduled 40 speeches, and Pennsylvania's Senator Hugh Scott has given him vigorous support. This week Bobby Kennedy will campaign for Shapp; Shafer will counter with Dwight Eisenhower, who will play host at Gettysburg to a reunion of Shafer's old PT boat squadron...
...Family Reunion. He was something of a character himself. To his children, N.C. seemed "a combination of Paul Bunyan and Santa Claus"; to keep that illusion alive, he would risk his neck each Christmas Eve to stomp noisily atop the icy roof of their house. To his neighbors near Chadds Ford, Pa. -where N.C. had settled in 1903 to study under another great illustrator, Howard Pyle-and in Maine, where he subsequently summered, Wyeth was a big-hearted man, equally at home with farmers and fishermen...
...Rockland exhibition rapidly took on the overtones of a family reunion, and the whole clan was on hand to relive old memories. For not only did N.C. put his children into his paintings, he also turned his children into painters. "You had to paint in our household," says Ann, who modeled for the little girl in The Scottish Chiefs and is the wife of Wyeth-trained Artist John McCoy II. Henriette, who was one of three boys in her father's illustration for Mark Twain's The Mysterious Stranger, is a painter and the wife of a painter...
...women might never have known Katsura Squadron's odd fate had not Mrs. Atsuko Hori, now the wife of an Ozuki businessman, tracked down the pilots and invited them to a reunion. To Kenji Katayama, a mild-mannered Kyoto agricultural official at 43, the invitation brought a "burning nostalgia for those days when I was so pure that I thought nothing of dying for the glory of my nation. All at once I was full of desire for a rendezvous with my past...
...untimely," according to Block, and Inland would keep prices where they were. Under presidential pressure and a clear market threat by Inland, the rest of the industry followed suit. Ever since, Block and Inland have been, in the words of a colleague, like "the bastards at the family reunion" wherever steel people get together...