Word: blum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bubble, if indeed it had ever existed, soon collapsed. The voters of Cleveland decisively threw Calkins off the School Board and Harvard replaced Pusey with President Bok, a man who needed no public relations spokesman. Professors Blum and Slichter, Bok, and Treasurer George Putnam all became new faces on the Corporation. Perhaps Harvard and Cleveland, like the rest of the country, was tired of dynamic and glamorous men; more likely the Calkins boomlet reflected few of Calkin's real desires...
Appointments to the Corporation are the product of a self-perpetuating mechanism in which the current members fill the vacancies in their own ranks. The most recent appointments were in 1970 when two professors, John Morton Blum '43 of Yale, and Charles P. Slichter '45 of the University of Illinois at Urbana, replaced two lawyers...
...Burr '35, a partner in the prestigious Boston law firm of Ropes and Gray, who has served since 1954; Nickerson, director and former chairman of the board of the Mobil Oil Corp., who has been a member since 1965; Hugh Calkins '45, a prominent Cleveland lawyer, appointed in 1968; Blum, a History professor, and Slichter, a Physics professor; in addition to President Bok and Treasurer George Putnam...
...particularly Alden Watson as Richard Greatham. His style of controlled bewilderment and priggish dismay enlivens the potentially flat role of the conservative diplomat. Jill Abramson vamps madly in her part as the inane and brainless ingenue, but her squeaky voice, exaggerated walk, and batting eyes quickly become tiresome. Joanna Blum is convincing as the sophisticated woman-about-town who tries (to no avail) to pull the Bliss family out of their hopeless theatrics. She, like Abramson, has a formula of winking eyes and sleek walk which loses its charm after repeated usage...
COMMODITIES. Last year the hottest items were soybeans and wheat; this year the fastest action is in sugar and metals. On the Chicago Board of Trade, Dealer Larry Blum says, "silver was going up in a day as much as it ordinarily does in a year." The biggest silver speculator is Dallas Centimillionaire Nelson Bunker Hunt, who has used his petro-wealth to buy millions of dollars worth of future contracts for silver. Unlike most commodities gamblers, Hunt has accepted delivery on some of the metal, which he apparently intends to hoard until the price goes higher...