Word: donald
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...DROP OF ANOTHER HAT brings an antipodal pair, Michael Flanders and Donald Swann, back to Broadway once more with a jaunty, sly revue in what they call "the theater of kindness." They scramble their comic omelet with such pixy princeliness that It becomes a royal banquet of mirth...
...claim of the ideal." His pinched nostrils seem to sniff moral pollution in the air. He abominates his widowed father, a pompous timber merchant, accusing him of real and fancied slights to his dead mother. Taking lodgings in the modest household of a former classmate, Hjalmar Ekdal (Donald Moffat), Gregers uncovers more extensive proof of his father's evil ways. Not only did he bring lifelong disgrace to Hjalmar's father through a crooked timber deal, but he also seduced Hjalmar's wife (Betty Miller), a former housekeeper in the Werle household; Gregers' father sired...
...best airplanes, and has become even better known by making NASA's Mercury and Gemini space capsules. He is also a shrewd and determined bargainer, and he has long had his eye on the Douglas Aircraft Co. He tried a takeover in 1963, only to be rebuffed by Donald Douglas Sr., now 74, an old friend who helped McDonnell get started 28 years ago with orders for DC-3 parts. Last year McDonnell began buying Douglas stock again, and last week he was flying as high as one of his F-4 Phantom jets. After a long board meeting...
...thing, he and his associates already held more than 800,000 shares of Douglas -and "Mr. Mac" threatened to keep buying more until he controlled the company. Another reason was that McDonnell, as a proud old airplane builder himself, was more than ready to agree to Donald Douglas Sr.'s request that the family name remain on any new company. Less definite is the future of Donald Douglas Jr., 49, whose presidency was blamed by many for the company's financial woes. Chances are that he will be given a high-sounding title and little if any policymaking...
Under the initiative of John P. Elder, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and Donald Cooke, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Cornell, the Association decided last October to set up a committee to study the possibility of political pressure to abolish the oath and recommend appropriate action...