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Horner was installed by Susan S. Lyman '49, chairman of the Radcliffe Board of Trustees, who presented her with symbols of the office: the 1894 College 'Charter, and a silver key attached to a disc engraved with MSH and the inaugural date...
...will still leave unrecorded the band of the past year. The style of music, life and business began to change as the demands of success led to increasing pressure to produce, travel, and reflect a projected image. As a result of these changes, Mr. Larry Carsman, lead guitarist and "charter member" from before the beginning, left the band. The story of the present Larry Carsman Blues Band begins with the inevitable question of why Larry left the Montgomery Band around April of 1972. The answer shows that, more accurately, the band left...
McCullough gives detailed and sometimes tedious accounts of the infighting at the Bridge Company, which came under investigation when Tweed was exposed. The Company was not exactly a model of probity. Most of its funds came from the cities treasuries, but under its charter it was entirely controlled by private shareholders--which was not terribly surprising. The original impetus for a bridge came from a profit-minded contractor named William C. Kingsley, a good friend of Boss McLaughijn of Brooklyn...
...hours before Tass, the official news agency, reported the disaster, and still another 18 hours before Pravda covered it in twelve lines on its back page. The Soviets had to acknowledge the tragedy because there were 38 Chileans and five Algerians aboard the flight, which had begun as a charter from Paris; if no foreigners had been involved, the crash might never have been reported. News of the Sochi disaster leaked out only after Aeroflot sent letters of sympathy, and symbolic, empty urns to the victims' next of kin, along with 300 rubles ($333) each in compensation. The Soviet...
Protect & Promote. In the U.S., charter bargains have theoretically been restricted to groups of lodge brothers or other affinity organizations. That rule led to the proliferation of groups aptly described by San Francisco Tour Operator Jack Aufricht as "bowling clubs that charter 40 airplanes a year and have one bowling game." Over the past decade, charter flights have increased from 10% to 22% of all air traffic across the Atlantic. The scheduled lines have fought back by offering a bewildering variety of excursion packages, and some have resorted to illegal discounting of blocks of tickets to travel agents...