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...estate to the tax-free Howard Hughes Medical Institute. They also expected to be named trustees of the institute and thus continue running the empire. The three are Frank William Gay, Summa's executive vice president; Nadine Henley, Hughes' longtime administrative assistant and senior vice president; and Chester Davis, an abrasive Wall Street lawyer who is general counsel...
...Roebuck warehouses, cluttered with furniture, refrigerators, washing machines and television sets. The 12,000 evacuated from their homes settled down for what could be a long siege, finding rooms in local motels, beds in the homes of friends and relatives or cots in a crowded school gymnasium. Said Mayor Chester Reiten, whose town has already been declared a disaster area by the Federal Government: "We've done it so often, it's automatic...
...Chester and Rhoda Bernie went to Santa Rosa recently from Los Angeles, where he sold insurance for years. In L.A., says Bernie, "there were fights on the street and parents didn't care. Our kids at school got beat up and their money taken away. But that kind of thing doesn't happen here. Kids play, but there is no violence." In Santa Rosa, the Bernies have absorbed more culture than they ever did in Los Angeles. The community turns out solidly to support the semiprofessional 75-member symphony orchestra. When Angela Davis or Jack Anderson speaks...
...emigre from the Business School, Kilbridge took over the acting deanship of the faltering and strife-ridden GSD in 1969, dropping into the controversy surrounding the GSD's decision not to rehire a popular but outspoken then assistant professor of City Planning, Chester W. Hartman...
...Stamford, Conn. The word comes from the Greek xeros, meaning "dry." It refers to the dry, electrostatic copying process (a quantum improvement over earlier wet photographic methods) finally developed in 1938 in a one-room laboratory behind a beauty parlor in Astoria, Queens, by a penurious patent attorney named Chester F. Carlson. Xerox Corp. had revenues of $4.05 billion last year, and today accounts for more than half of all photocopier sales and leases in the U.S. (The chief producers of copying machines after Xerox...