Word: strokes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...varsity first boat is relatively young this year. Four of the oarsmen are sophomores: stroke Dave Harmon, Dick Moore, Rod Peterson, and Kim Kiley. Captain Rob Wolfe, Joe Bracewell, Fred Fisher, and John Smart will be the other starters. Sophomore Fred Yalouris will...
...ultimately to spur popular support for federal programs to aid education and science. There was a sense of drift, a feeling that Eisenhower was by then more figurehead than President. In November 1957, Ike, for the third time in less than three years, suffered a major illness?a stroke...
Died. Max Eastman, 86, lusty lion of the left until the late 1930s when he became disenchanted and turned his literary talents to exposing Communism; of a stroke; in Bridgetown, Barbados. Tall, handsome and charming, Eastman captivated women (three marriages, numerous self-publicized affairs), yet nothing equaled his youthful love match with radicalism. In World War I, as editor of The Masses, he preached so violently against U.S. involvement that he was indicted (but not convicted) for sedition. In the 1920s, he traveled to Russia, where he became an intimate of Trotsky, but disillusionment came with Stalin's terrorism...
...withdrawals were both steady and large enough, this solution would possibly satisfy the largest number of involved parties. For one thing, it would require each side to demonstrate its good faith in a succession of moves, rather than asking it to risk its position on a single bold stroke. For another, it would give U.S. fighting men time to initiate their ARVN replacements with firsthand experience?and keep providing, until the last phase, the most complicated kinds of battlefield assistance, especially air support...
Died. Charles Brackett, 76, screenwriter and producer, whose 30-year Hollywood stint brought him three Oscars and a six-year term (1949-55) as president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; of a stroke; in Bel Air, Calif. Brackett began writing short stories for the Saturday Evening Post, soon switched to The New Yorker as drama critic. Next stop was Hollywood in 1932, where he and Billy Wilder collaborated on 15 pictures, including Academy Award winners The Lost Weekend (1945) and Sunset Boulevard (1950). Brackett's final Oscar was for his Titanic (1953) screenplay, which captured...