Word: drowned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trailer-borne marquees to Dallas stores, or design football bumper stickers and sell them to alumni. Some enterprises die aborning. Jerry White, 26, devised a plastic sheathing to protect telephone poles from woodpeckers but found it too expensive to produce. Other students are still gamely trying to develop a drown-proof infant bathtub, a self-testing kit for lung cancer and a transistorized gadget that would automatically squirt out air freshener every few minutes. But, as Bob Lyle, the 30-year-old acting dean, points out, even failure teaches students something about business...
Hyland again came to the attention of Harvard officials on Dec. 11, 1969, when he and three other members of Harvard NAC attempted to drown out Dean May's announcement of an injunction against members of the Organization for Black Unity (OBU) who were occupying University Hall. The four NAG members stood close to May, shouting loudly and following after...
...Johnson children-whose parents are black welfare recipients from the predominantly low-income neighborhood surrounding the Arboretum-were the second and third children to drown in the pond-known locally variously as "Muddy Pond," the Muddies," and "that smelly mudhole"-in 18 years. When a nine-year-old boy drowned in the pond in 1953, the local residents circulated a petition asking Harvard to fill in the pond. Over 300 signatures were collected on the petition before it was turned over to Harvard, but no action was ever taken...
...After all," he said, "does the MDC have to fill in the Charles River just because people drown there? Water is water-we need all the water we can get, and we can't just go around filling up every piece of water. Should we fill up the oceans because people drown there...
...Nixons, for their side of the aisle, are asking mostly old, close friends: Los Angeles Businessman Jack Drown and his wife, Industrialist Robert Abplanalp, Bebe Rebozo, PepsiCo President Donald Kendall. Other guests: Chief of Protocol Emil Mosbacher Jr., Federal Reserve Board Chairman Arthur Burns and Paul Keyes, a former writer for TV's Laugh-In. The President's brothers, Donald and Edward Nixon, will attend, as will Mrs. Nixon's brothers. William and Thomas Ryan, and her half brother, Matthew Bender. At one point, Mrs. Nixon suggested throwing all the names in the air and inviting the ones that landed...