Word: bachelor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Qabus, who occasionally answers the telephone himself at the palace (Muscat 220), is a curious blend of modernity and tradition. A bachelor, he disapproves of drinking and of modern dancing in public. He prefers robes and turbans to Western dress. Since becoming Sultan he has worn his uniform as commander of the 6,000-man Omani army only once -for a parade in December marking his 30th birthday...
Hiring other personnel proved harder. Garfield's white nursing director quit shortly after the merger: Showalter desperately replaced her with a black male nurse who lacked the generally required bachelor's degree. Other appointments were equally unorthodox. Garfield's personnel director is a former inventory clerk at a local faucet factory; the food-service manager is a onetime hospital kitchen worker whose ability to run a kitchen more than compensates for her lack of training in dietetics...
...FOURTEEN students receive bachelor's degrees in Harvard's three-hundred-thirty-fifth Commencement Exercises. Honorary degree goes to Marshal Nguyen Cao Ky "for his dedicated statesmanship, open-hearted humanitarianism, and distinguished service in the Armed Forces of the United States." Stephen J. Kelman '70, Swedish meatball for the Boston Globe, is invited back for the second consecutive year to deliver the Pig Latin Oration on "The Ythmay of Expressionary," In his swearing-in ceremony, Harvard's new president comments...
...league." Named Rookie of the Year, Sanderson naturally hurried into print with his autobiography. In I've Got To Be Me, he offered his philosophy: "I like a swinging chick who grooves on life. One who's kind of warm, wet and wild." In his bachelor digs he installed a bar, mood lighting, a wall-to-wall white fur rug, and a circular bed beneath a mirrored ceiling...
Swiss Businessman Rudi Bucher was celebrating his 54th birthday at his home near Lake Como when a congratulatory letter arrived from his brother, Switzerland's Ambassador to Brazil. Life in Rio, wrote Giovanni Enrico Bucher, 57, a suave, popular bachelor, was "pleasant and uneventful." One day, he predicted, Brazil would be one of the "stablest nations of Latin America." One day, perhaps, but not just yet. Moments after Rudi Bucher finished reading the letter, he heard that his brother had been kidnaped by urban guerrillas...