Word: coate
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...remember living in the houses when you couldn't come to dinner without a coat and tie," recalls Stanley N. Katz '55, now a professor at Princeton University and a master of one of the residential colleges. "One day a guy came into the dining hall wearing a jacket and tie and nothing else. I knew then that they weren't going to be able to keep that standard any more," he says...
...students can hope to hear Bowie in person at the workshop meetings this afternoon, unfortunately meets with a negative. The trumpeter underwent a hernia operation barely a week ago, and is still unable to blow. Aficionados will be pleased to know that Bowie continues to sport a white laboratory coat in concert ("to symbolize the research we're doing into different types of music, different types of reaction"), and his beard still emerges in two prongs from his chin ("I've always been a firm believer in individual expression...
...been plagued by ethical breakdowns of varying seriousness. Harry Truman's military aide, General Harry Vaughan, accepted a freezer from a manufacturer and survived the uproar. Dwight Eisenhower fired his chief of staff, Sherman Adams, for giving Government favors to an industrialist and taking a vicuña coat and an Oriental rug from him. Jimmy Carter defended his Budget Director and crony, Bert Lance, until Lance quit under charges that he had permitted relatives to overdraw their accounts in a bank he had headed. And then, of course, there were Richard Nixon's Watergate transgressions...
Wearing Snoopy earrings and a purple coat dotted with Teddy-bear pins, Virginia McMartin, 76, a white-haired widow, sat in a wheelchair last week in a Los Angeles superior court, her head bowed low. McMartin, three relatives and three other women faced charges that they sodomized, fondled and raped more than 100 preschool children at a day-care center run by McMartin in Manhattan Beach, a coastal suburb of Los Angeles...
...walking along the sidewalk next to the 8-foot-high fence that separates the South Lawn from tourists and placard wavers seemed suspicious. When the Secret Service officers approached him, he allegedly reached into his coat and turned on them with a loaded 12-gauge sawed-off shotgun. One agent quickly drew his service revolver and fired, wounding the would-be gunman in the right...