Word: allen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...where negative thinking seldom intrudes, can remember a summer so financially successful. United Artists, a subsidiary of the San Francisco conglomerate Transamerica, is scooping up wads of money from Rocky, which has grossed more than $100 million, Network ($30 million), The Pink Panther-Strikes Again ($40 million) and Woody Allen's Annie Hall, which took in $14 million in only seven weeks. Competitors are openly envious. Sighs Charles Bluhdorn, chairman of Gulf + Western, which operates Paramount Pictures: "I saw the first 15 minutes of Rocky, and I said, 'Why the hell didn't we make that...
Born in Scituate in 1901, Gordon is the director of several firms, including the Allen Group, Inc., the Carnation Co. and the Commercial Credit Co. He also holds down trusteeships of the national board of the YMCA and the Roxbury Latin School in Boston...
...investigation into Lyme arthritis was led by Dr. Stephen Malawista, chief of Yale's rheumatology section, and two colleagues, Drs. Allen Steere Jr. and John Hardin. Because nearly all the victims lived in wooded areas heavily infested with insects, and because the cases usually cropped up at the height of the insect season, the Yale doctors had good reason to suspect that the carrier was a bug. Indeed, some of the victims remembered being bitten by a tick, although their blood has shown no specific signs of a bacterial or viral invasion. Yet recently the Yale doctors found...
...Presidents have had one man to keep them informed and another to keep them laughing; one for work, the other for relaxation. Harry Truman talked policy with Clark Clifford and played poker with General Harry Vaughan; Dwight Eisenhower had Sherman Adams for the heavy duty and George Allen for the lighter moments; John Kennedy learned from Ted Sorensen and kidded with Dave Powers...
...think Allen Ginsberg summed it up best years ago when he said 'we make criminals and outcasts out of the most sensitive people in society...