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...polish of his machines. He wears horn-rimmed glasses and ill-fitting pants, gulps coffee, chain-smokes Pall Malls and often totes a Colt .45. "When I was broke, I was crazy; now that I am rich, I am eccentric," he declares. He is about 65 but refuses to confirm it. His motto for summing up his favorite pursuits: "Younger women, faster airplanes and bigger crocodiles." Jones has had five wives, all of whom he married when they were between the ages of 16 and 20. He lives with his current spouse Terri, 23, on his 600-acre Jumbo Lair...
...this date, the University has refused even to confirm or to deny that it followed procedures it set up to handle harassment in the wake of the Dominguez case. This failure to clarify the circumstances of Hibbs's resignation and its own statement, as well as simply what procedures were followed, demonstrate that it is not yet prepared to deal in good faith with current or future victims of harassment...
Skinner, and members of the Psychology and Social Relations Department contacted last week, refused to confirm or deny that he would receive an honorary degree...
...Soviet Union, Viet Nam, East Germany and Bulgaria. The letters, diaries and other documents also suggest that relations between the Salvadoran rebels and the Sandinistas have been strained at times, particularly in the months following the 1983 U.S. invasion of Grenada. The papers, said one U.S. official, "tend to confirm rather than reveal." After Reagan's troublesome week, it was at least a small victory...
...While planning our 350th anniversary celebration, to be held a year from September, it occurred to me that it would befit tradition for the other President to make a speech. The White House people were very polite, explaining that the President liked the idea but that they could not confirm a date that far away. Assuming he could come, they added rather pointedly, would Harvard award him an honorary degree? Well. Such awards, of course, are decided by a sacred convocation and are hardly tossed around loosely. When word of the White House feeler got around, some of the faculty...