Word: burrs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...venture with the $2.7 billion American Medical International Inc., of Beverely Hills, Calif., will be announced formally on Thursday, said Francis H. Burr '35, chairman of the McLean trustees and a former member of the Harvard Corporation...
...Burr said the parties had agreed to withhold details until the formal announcement...
...There is no merger," Burr said. "McLean will be operated exactly the same as before. It will remain non-profit and remain under the control of the same trustees...
...rampage left Iowa perplexed, as well as anguished. "Nobody thought Dale would do things like that," said a farmer who knew Burr. "He was quiet, didn't smoke or drink, didn't socialize much. His life was his wife and that farm of his." But Burr felt overwhelmed by his debts: in addition to the Hills Bank loans, he owed $139,900 to another bank and nearly $10,000 to his brother-in-law Forbes. Nevertheless, with his land alone worth about $2,000 an acre, his farm still had enough value to protect him from foreclosure. "Burr...
...despair that has incited it, would subside. In Iowa City, 1,500 mourners jammed a memorial service for Hughes, where the Rev. Henry Greiner called on elected officials to "heed the cries of those who till the soil and feed the nation." In Lone Tree, Dale and Emily Burr were buried side by side in a cemetery just a mile from their farm. The day ^ before, Richard Goody's widow turned down the offer of a military funeral for her husband even though, as a Viet Nam veteran, he was entitled to one. "No more guns," Marilyn Goody said softly...