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...earns at Amex, but is so little worried about the loss of income that he hasn't even talked salary with the school's trustees. With an endowment exceeding $150 million, Wesleyan clearly picked Etherington for his executive rather than financial abilities, although, notes Trustee President Gilbert Clee, "No college seeking to be dynamic will ever have too much money...
...attack bases in Thailand, Major General Gilbert L. Meyers, Saigon-headquartered vice-commander of the U.S. Seventh Air Force, showed up personally in the briefing rooms. "We've got one of those targets we've been waiting for," he lectured before a wall map of Hanoi. "Now let's do a good job on it, and we may get the other targets we want. I want all bombs in the target at all costs...
...members discussed a proposal to increase the number of parietal hours. The request was made by off-campus residents who felt that allowing boys upstairs would let them have guests for dinner and use their living rooms for other purposes. Right in the middle of the debate, acting President Gilbert announced that any motion for extended parietals would be vetoed by the College Council, Radcliffe's governing board. There was no opportunity for discussion; this was not a suggestion, but a directive...
...wanted everybody else to. She started promoting concerts as a lark in 1918, carried on for the rest of her life and grew famous, both for her ability to squeeze money from the flintiest skin and for such delightful intermission announcements as "We will now hear an operetta by Gilbert and Solomon...
...Blitz now owns 40% of the club's shares, and Baron Edmond de Rothschild's Compagnie Financière 34%. In his original prospectus Blitz said the villages would permit members to escape from offices and factories and "rediscover the natural rhythm of life." Club President Gilbert Trigano, 45, takes a less lofty view. Says he: "We look on vacations as a product. We produce vacations just as another firm might produce, say, automobiles...