Word: boye
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...graduated from Don Bosco Technical High School, a Catholic school situated near Boston's Combat Zone. Joe grew up in a low-income housing project in Allston right down the street from Harvard Stadium. He is a city boy, and the transition to Harvard was immense...
...self-effacing in discussing his assumption of the new post, constantly describing himself as "the new boy" who "hardly knows his way in the door," and whose first priority is still "just trying to learn the job." Yet it is obvious that Edward L. Keenan '57, new dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, has been doing his homework this summer. He sits in his office in University Hall 24 in complete command of the array of charts, graphs and reports that fill the files in his desk. He cites statistics from some of the books he included...
...sprawling, tree-lined compound of antenna-covered villas and underground facilities about a half-hour drive from downtown Peking, Wang runs the Chinese equivalents of the U.S.'s FBI, Secret Service and CIA. His path to Fragrant Hill began early in the 1930s when, as a country-boy corporal in the Communist forces fighting the Nationalist regime, he became Mao's personal bodyguard. He quickly rose to command Mao's entire security force; in a legendary 1947 operation, he managed to save Mao, Chiang Ch'ing and Chou En-lai from capture by Nationalist troops...
After graduation he found a job at Station WGN-TV in Chicago. His flair for promotion gave him two immediate successes. He bought up a string of kids' movies from the '50s, featuring Bomba, the Jungle Boy. He edited them down to an hour each, and added a dramatic opening of mysterious jungle drums. The kids loved them. He also bought old adventure films, such as Robin Hood and Tom Sawyer. Renaming them Family Classics, he dared to run them on Friday nights, usually the province of action and comedy. He had another smash, and Family Classics outdrew even...
...first flush of his success, Elvis lived with the crazy vigor of a good ole boy who just had the whole world tucked snugly into the back pocket of his overalls. He surrounded himself with home-town cronies, kept them fed and cared for, dispensed lavish gifts. He gave away luxury cars-particularly the Cadillacs he doted on-like gumdrops. After a while, though, the cronies became heavies-bodyguards, procurers-and the gifts bribes to buy loyalty, or silence. He courted a girl, Priscilla Beaulieu, he had met during his Army hitch. He persuaded her father to let her come...