Word: aarons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Haile Mariam, leader of the ruling Provisional Military Council in Addis Ababa, was directing his anger at Washington. During a government-sponsored press tour (see following story), Mengistu accused the U.S. (falsely) of indirectly supplying arms to Somalia. At week's end an American delegation led by David Aaron, deputy director of the National Security Council, arrived in the Ethiopian capital to urge Mengistu not to burn his remaining bridges with the U.S. Last week TIME Nairobi Bureau Chief David Wood was in the Ogaden. His report...
Once he barreled across the scrimmage line, all 6 ft. 8 in., 285 lbs. of him, as the crowd chanted: "Kill, Bubba, kill!" But Charles Aaron ("Bubba") Smith, the former defensive left end for the Baltimore Colts, collided with an aluminum yard marker in 1972, suffered a severe knee injury, and was later forced to give up the game. Now, in an unprecedented legal case, Smith, 32, is asking $1.5 million from the N.F.L. in a negligence suit. He claims that officials failed to remove the marker in time when the action flowed toward the sidelines. To help his case...
...cash in on the action, the London auction firms of Christie's and Phillips, along with French Dealer Didier Aaron, opened branches in Manhattan last year. Since opening in May, Christie's reaped sales of $20 million?50% over original projections. Sotheby Parke Bernet reports that sales for the past four months were $43.7 million, up 53% over last year...
...document aims to achieve greater efficiency by streamlining the intelligence community under Turner, and to curb misdirected actions by imposing new restraints on covert activities. Says David Aaron, deputy director of the National Security Council: "It was important to end once and for all the notion that effective intelligence can't be carried out within constitutional limitations...
...guru to such American composers as Samuel Barber, Aaron Copland and Virgil Thomson was correct about Schuyler Chapin. She was also right when she suggested that he might do well in music management. Chapin became road manager for Violinist Jascha Heifetz. He held Vladimir Horowitz's hand when the volatile pianist returned to the recording studios in 1962, and to the concert stage in 1965. For three turbulent years he occupied the most prestigious chair in opera, general manager of the Metropolitan...