Word: bernard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grass looks several shades greener in the Spring Term. There are a few courses for which it might be wise to save room. History 160c sounds like the course which brilliant, tough-minded Bernard Bailyn has always wanted to teach. It concerns the Emergence of the Liberal State. James Thomson will be teaching History 171b which treats American-Far Eastern Relations and will hit Vietnam. Thomson is a good talker who worked in the National Security Council on the Far East. And no Harvard Education is complete without a little James Joyce. Reuben Brower will discuss him and other English...
Classes on body awareness are run by Bernard Gunther, a sometime weight lifter and yoga student, in order to "get people to let go of an excessively verbal image of themselves." After having his students stand barefoot on a sheet and feel the grass under it, he pairs them off, asks them to "converse" by slapping each other's arms and shoulders. In "the Gunther sandwich," one student lies face-down on a sheet; two others kneel beside him, pound his legs, buttocks and back with their hands. Then the three stretch out and cling to each other. Gunther...
...Died. Bernard Goldfine, 76, Boston businessman and central figure in the Eisenhower Administration's only major scandal; of a heart attack; in Boston An 1899 emigrant from Russia, Goldfine became a wheeler-dealer in real estate "and textiles, and a friend of important people. Trouble was, some of the most important of those people, notably Chief White House Aide Sherman Adams, accepted expensive gifts from Goldfine while federal agencies were examining his tangled finances. The Justice Department eventually uncovered enough evidence to convict him of tax evasion in 1961; after six months in prison, he emerged sick and dishonored...
...twilight of his long and laudable career, Bernard Baruch was invariably characterized as an adviser to Presidents or a park-bench philosopher who doled out wisdom from a seat in Central Park or Lafayette Square. Admirers tended to forget-Baruch never did-that in the forenoon of that career, he had also been one of Wall Street's craftiest speculators. Baruch could be bearish or bullish. He once sold Amalgamated Copper short and realized $700,000 when Amalgamated reduced a dividend, causing its overpriced stock to tumble. Another time, alerted by a newspaperman that Commodore Schley had beaten...
Bursting through the clouds, Jumper Robert Coy was astonished to find himself far out over the vast expanse of Lake Erie. "I was flabbergasted. I couldn't see land. Nothing. I could see the other parachutes going into the water." A passing boat rescued Coy and Bernard Johnson; two other chutists delayed their drop in order to jump from a still higher altitude and landed safely on the ground. A five-day search turned up ten bodies including one woman. The other six were presumed drowned...