Word: fathering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fellow commission members include 1970 Nobel Peace Prizewinner Norman Borlaug, developer of new wheat strains and father of the "green revolution," Thomas Wyman, president of the Green Giant food corporation, and Singer John Denver, who has produced a documentary movie on hunger, I Want to Live. Said Carter of Denver:. "While some of us can only reach thousands of people on the problem of hunger, he can reach millions...
...plate luncheon in rural Carroll County that employment is the key campaign issue. With typical bombast, he attacked bureaucrats who "do not-understand the courageous mother who has to line her children up and say, 'There's no Christmas this year because your father doesn't have a job.' " Rhodes claims credit for attracting 481,000 new jobs to Ohio and cutting welfare rolls by 40,000 since...
With polls showing that education is the chief concern of most voters, the issue has been seized on by Democratic Nominee Richard Celeste, 40, a Rhodes scholar and father of six who has been Lieutenant Governor since 1974. Celeste favors cutting property taxes and making up the school budget gaps from corporate and personal income taxes. He has carefully refused to provide any estimates of what his proposal would cost and avoids mentioning that it would probably require an income tax increase. Claims Rhodes: "He doesn't have any education program...
Holland's father Jerome "Bud" Holland starred for Cornell in 1937 and 1938. One of the first blacks to play in the Ivy League, Bud Holland was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1965 and is now the U.S. ambassador to Sweden...
BUDDING technocrats at the Kennedy School may find cause to admire the fiscal prudence with which Engelhard built his father's $20 million nest egg into a quarter-billion dollar empire. In his non-corporate life, however, Engelhard was not exactly the thrifty sort. His expenditures on life's luxuries make his philanthropic pittances pall by comparison. Before he died, Engelhard owned nine homes on four continents, including a hunting lodge in the Transvaal, and a mansion outside Johannesburg...