Word: chaires
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...freewheeling entrepreneur who made his first millions selling Gold Bond Stamps, has a gilt complex. He loves gold. The energetic conglomerateur controls the worldwide operations of his Minneapolis-based empire (hotels, restaurants, discounting) from offices reminiscent of that Bondian archvillain, Auric Goldfinger: his gold-embossed telephone, gold vinyl chair and gold-striped sofa are set off by the rich, warm shades of a gold-hued carpet. When Carlson's Gold Bond Stamp operation was at its peak in the 1960s, its executives drove a fleet of company-owned gold Cadillacs. A gold-framed saying in one of his offices...
SOMEHOW a rocking chair seems out of place in the repertoire of the Pulitzer-Prize-winning Vietnam correspondent and monomaniacal reporter that David Halberstam is. But after a few telltale early-warning signs in The Best and the Brightest, Halberstam has finally lapsed into his anecdotage. The Powers That Be ranks as the ultimate politico-media gossip book, with a thousand jolly stories and vivacious quotes about four big-time media institutions--Time magazine, CBS, The Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times--and how they have interacted with politics, mainly presidential, during the last century...
...only an ephemeral warning about insensitive administrators--the letter moves to the specific problems of defining the conditions under which gifts will be rejected. The most obvious condition, he states, is when a donor "improperly restricts" academic freedom by insisting on choosing who shall be appointed to his endowed chair, or what sorts of doctrines his money shall be used to support. Harvard rejects donations of that sort, Bok says. If a donor wished to "promote the value of the free market," for instance, the money would be turned down. Curiously enough, the University's proposal for the ARCO Forum...
...matter of a lot of small things this season," the veteran pitcher said, leaning back in his chair and talking softly. "We've been playing apart, and the result is we have played inconsistently. The second thing was the coaching change--coach Nahigian is a great guy who gives 100 per cent for the kids and the job, but obviously in the beginning you have to adjust to a new coach's style...
...foundation will provide Harvard with $50,000 a year to support the chair, Wallace said...