Word: cunningham
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Shortly after sunrise on May 14, the Union Jack flapped down from its staff over Government House, on Jerusalem's Hill of Evil Counsel. Without farewells from Jew or Arab, the British Governor General, tired-looking General Sir Alan Gordon Cunningham, flew to Haifa in an R.A.F. plane. There, at 10:05 a.m., he stepped into a naval launch and was sped out to the light cruiser Euryalus. On the dock, a bagpiper skirled the melancholy tune of The Minstrel Boy. Precisely at midnight, the Euryalus passed the three-mile limit of Palestine's territorial waters. From Royal...
...children from a poor St. Louis family, Waters graduated from California State University-Los Angeles. She owned a public relations firm and then worked as a deputy to Los Angeles City Councilman David Cunningham before her 1976 election to the assembly. She is married with two grown children...
...continuing saga of Mary Cunningham and William Agee is amusing [July 4]. The games Cunningham played while she was at Bendix are certainly familiar to big businessmen. They have been playing them for years. It is hardly news when a corporate executive steals an idea from a subordinate and passes it off as his own. It becomes noteworthy only when a woman does...
...School as the root of all management evil. H.B.S. is an educational, not a correctional institution. The tactics used by Agee in the Bendix-Martin Marietta acquisition debacle bear little resemblance to what we are taught at Harvard. If some of the school's better-known graduates, like Cunningham and Agee, have acquired a reputation for backstabbing, they possessed the trait long before their arrival at Harvard...
...Cunningham may already have offered some clues as to what she is likely to say. In a booklet that classmates at Wellesley compiled for their tenth reunion, she inveighed against prejudice toward women in American business. Said she: "It is the exceptions throughout history-in business, in medicine, in politics-that have made the breakthroughs and moved us forward-not by inches but by leaps." Yes, but fold your golden parachute carefully...