Word: bullocks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Knapp, a former Bullock fellow at Harvard's Graduate School of Public Administration, is a political scientist who became provost at Cornell in 1974. He has also served as dean of the New York State College of Human Ecology at Cornell and directed the Institute of College and University Administrators at the American Council on Education...
...Even when a rise of about 6% in retail prices between the two Christmases is discounted, the sales gains are solid-and the buying momentum continued into last week as postholiday sales began. At 8 a.m. Monday, the day after Christmas, shoppers began lining up outside a Bullock's department store in Los Angeles in a drenching rain, waiting for the doors to open...
Stereo equipment moved rapidly, as did video-tape recording devices like Sony's Betamax (about $1,000). Trendy boots ($175 and up), gold stickpins for women, $5,400 coyote fur coats and $200 cashmere bathrobes also helped speed the buying avalanche. Says Val Holwerda, a vice president of Bullock's: "Anything soft and romantic sold well...
...before the state board of pardons, the board voted 2 to 1 to grant the condemned man's plea that he stand "like a man" in front of a firing squad in the first U.S. execution in almost a decade. The following day, District Court Judge J. Robert Bullock set the execution date for sunrise, Dec. 6, just two days after Gilmore's 36th birthday. "That's acceptable," Gilmore said quietly...
...next day's hearing before Judge Bullock was brisk. Again the manacled prisoner was asked whether he had anything to say. Gilmore rose shakily to his feet and made one request: "I understand, your honor, they are planning to seat me in a chair with a hood over my head. I don't want that. I don't want a hood, and I want to be standing...