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...That disbelieving headline appeared in the Toronto Star three years ago, the day after an obscure M.P. from rural Alberta emerged as leader of Canada's Progressive Conservative Party, following a hotly contested convention. The question quickly became a national joke, and the joke led to insults. "Henry Aldrich from Alberta," sniffed one Liberal Cabinet minister...
...caller said he had planted two bombs, one at MIT's Sloane School of Management and a second at Aldrich Hall at the B-School, "because of Carter's visit to Egypt," the news release said. Both bombs were set to go off at 11 a.m., the caller said...
University police evacuated Aldrich Hall at about 10 a.m., Morse said. The building remained sealed off until noon, when Harvard officers and Boston bomb squad police decided there was no bomb in the building. MIT campus police evacuated Sloane through the fire drill procedure, James Oliveri, chief of MIT police said, adding they found no bombs...
Almost 1000 B-School students were in the Aldrich building at the time of the threat, Timothy W. Armour, administrative director of the Program for Management Development at the B-School, said yesterday...
Nothing delights me so much as facing up to a complex public issue, with all its confusions, turmoil and intensity, and trying to pull together the human resources to deal with it." Thus did Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller explain his political outlook during his confirmation hearings for Vice President in 1974. The words also summed up his whole political career, from his apprenticeship under a Democratic Administration to his four terms as New York Governor to his last moments in the limelight during a brief stint as Vice President. He truly loved problems and, with an exuberant confidence that few politicians...