Word: fox
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...indeed, the University's responses to such efforts have been so insensitive as to approach the ludicrous. In April, another group of students launched a hunger strike to press the divestiture issue, emulating a similar (and unsuccessful) initiative at Williams College in January. Dean of the College John B. Fox Jr. '59, heard of the strike but said he was "not disturbed" by it; in fact, he said, he was "pleased the students have found a way of expressing their views." Corporation Treasure George '49 was even more forthright. He laughed openly and said, "That's their preference...
Thus Bok, for example, sets the salaries of each of the deans and vice presidents. Rosovsky fixes the pay of his deputies, such as Dean of the College John B. Fox Jr. '59 and Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III, who in turn determine what the paychecks of their aides will show. Dr. Warren E.C. Wacker, director of UHS, is responsible for the $86,000 lion's share of Brooks's six-figure salary...
...stopping at a Royal Navy lifeboat station, Labor Leader Michael Foot, 69, was also out campaigning, putting in tiring ten-stop days around the country. In Surrey the silver-haired scholar hugged a black woman, was cheered by some unemployed youths and pledged to work for an end to fox hunting while cuddling a baby fox. His deputy, Denis Healey, 65, was just as busy. In York he sat down at a piano to play a funeral march-"to remind everyone where Thatcher is taking us"-and then took up the chorus of an old American barroom tune, Hard Hearted...
...pirates were preparing an all-out assault on the summer's hottest film, Return of the Jedi. Lucasfilm Ltd., the producer, stepped up security by policing film labs, fastening film canisters with special metal seals, and using messengers to deliver prints around the U.S. The distributor, 20th Century-Fox, sent telegrams to 836 theater managers urging them to take "every possible security" measure against piracy...
...Fox's letter did not convince the City Council, which unanimously passed Sullivan's order...