Word: chicago
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other action, the assembly formed an ad hoc committee to prepare for a conference, at the University of Pennsylvania, of representatives from the eight Ivy League schools, the University of Chicago, Stanford University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
...midweek there was a welcome shift away from finger pointing to genuine selfcriticism. The National Security Council called in some academic experts on Iran, including University of Chicago Professor Marvin Zonis, for a closed-door seminar on the lessons of the past few months. At the CIA there were a number of informal post-mortems on what one participant acknowledged had been a "massive intelligence failure...
...been with Tiffany, the snob queen of Fifth Avenue and points south and west (it also has stores in Atlanta, Chicago, Houston, Beverly Hills and San Francisco). Last week Tiffany surprised almost everybody by agreeing to sell its whole business?lock, stock and bauble. The buyer will be Avon Products, Inc., the door-to-door giant that knows a lot more about cold cream than carats. Selling to such a mass-not-class company would seem to betray a rare streak of egalitarianism in Tiffany Chairman Walter Hoving, whose often stated political views would make Marie Antoinette's sound like...
BORN. To Michael Bilandic, 55, mayor of Chicago, and Heather Morgan Bilandic, 35: their first child, a son; in Chicago. Name: Michael Morgan...
DIED. Lennie Tristano, 59, pianist, teacher and composer, who was a pioneer of cool, light, fluid jazz; of a heart attack; in Jamaica, N.Y. A Chicago boy blinded by measles at nine, Tristano later experimented with welding classical music to jazz and developed his own style of long melodic lines and shifting harmonies. Organizing several combos, he allowed each musician to play his own melody in his own key and rhythm with results that anticipated by a decade the free jazz experiments of Ornette Coleman...