Word: bennett
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Magicians and stand-up comics have sought to amuse. A press release has been circulated announcing that California Governor Jerry Brown will get the "Benedict Arnold Citizenship Award" for appointing ex-antiwar Activist Tom Hayden to the state's new solar energy panel. And now Tony Bennett is closing the show with a sad, silky version of Autumn Leaves. Off to the side, watching them, one begins to sense in some measure what they have endured, and still endure. They perfectly illustrate some lines from John le Carre's The Looking Glass War: "Nothing ever bridged the gulf...
...Washington's most frustrating Cabinet post, at a salary of $66,000. Yet he enjoys his official chauffeur-driven car, insists on flying cross-country first class, lives in a $182,000 house. And when he watches the Washington Redskins, he sits in the box beside Owner Edward Bennett Williams...
Most of the Navy's battle for more ships will be fought behind the closed doors of congressional committees, on which sit passionate Navy supporters. Florida Democrat Charles Bennett, chairman of the seapower subcommittee of the House Armed Services Committee, has proclaimed that the shipbuilding program "ought to be about 20% more." Charles Mathias, the Maryland Republican who wields considerable influence on the Senate Appropriations Committee, has declared: "I intend to ensure that this country has a strong Navy in the 1980s and beyond...
...University turned towards the more unpredictable forms of investment, like common stocks--instead of bonds, government securities and real estate--a full-time treasurer was necessary. In the '50s and '60s treasurers used their own private investment firms to help manage the portfolio, but when George F. Bennett '33 resigned as treasurer in 1973, citing an impossible workload as the cause, Harvard decided to change the system. Bennett had in effect two full-time jobs, one at Harvard and one as president of his own firm, so Harvard decided its next treasurer would devote himself almost completely to University business...
Harvard's investment policies are profitable, but are they ethical? Therein lies the rub, or at least therein lies much of the agitation over the portfolio in recent years. While Bennett was treasurer he personally made the shareholder decisions until Bok decided in October 1972 that a Corporation subcommittee should make the decisions. Bennett seemed to think there were no ethical issues involved in stock decisions, because he never supported an anti-management statements in the trash as soon as he got them. When non-financial shareholder resolutions became more prevalent in the early '70s, Bennett's conservatism began...