Word: chaires
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...I.O.S. board fired Cornfeld as chair man and called in New Jersey Financier Robert Vesco, who returned the favor by milking the funds of an estimated $227 million. He absconded in 1972 to Costa Rica and later the Bahamas. Angered at the way the I.O.S. shambles had be smirched their reputation for financial probity, the Swiss seized Cornfeld when he returned to the country in 1973 and held him for eleven months while they tried to assemble a case...
Last week at the library, workers in the first-floor museum area were carefully positioning J.F.K.'s rocking chair in a re-creation of the Oval Office. A replica of the large presidential desk was being moved from a storeroom; the original desk, still in the White House, was given by Queen Victoria to President Rutherford B. Hayes in 1878. On the library's desk will rest the coconut shell on which Naval Lieutenant Kennedy carved a call for help after PT-109 was sunk by a Japanese destroyer off Guadalcanal in 1943. Under the supervision of former...
...When the Ford Motor Co. archives were opened in 1951, researchers found many pictures of Henry Ford and his pal Edison in laboratories, at meetings and on outings. In some of these photos, Ford seemed attentive and alert, but Edison could be seen asleep - on a bench, in a chair, on the grass. His secret weapon was the catnap, and he elevated it to an art. Recalled one of his associates: "His genius for sleep equaled his genius for invention. He could go to sleep any where, any time, on anything...
Only councilor Walter Sullivan opposed the measure. However, a similar motion was withdrawn from the council last summer when it appeared unlikely to pass, Betsy Dunn, state chair of the National Organization of Women (NOW), said yesterday...
From 1947 to 1953 Houghton served on the Board of Overseers at Harvard. He endowed a chair at the Divinity School in 1968, and his cousin Arthur A. Houghton Jr. '29 established the Houghton Library...