Word: gunther
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...John J. Gunther executive director of the United States Conference of Mayors since 1958, is currently a fellow at the Kennedy School of Government's Institute of Politics...
...hard-boiled city with no more personality than a paper cup," said Raymond Chandler. "Iowa with palms," said John Gunther. Too severe. Iowa cannot claim to have, in one city at least, a Little Tokyo, a Chinatown, a Koreatown, all of which have personality. Hard-boiled is another matter...
...past two years, the orchestras of Cleveland, Baltimore, Detroit, Houston, San Francisco and Utah have filled conductorial vacancies, and at least seven other U.S. ensembles are searching. Cleveland, Detroit and San Francisco were forced to reach outside the narrow circle of superstars for Christoph von Dohnányi, Gunther Herbig and Herbert Blomstedt, Europeans relatively obscure to U.S. audiences. Others have breached the prejudice against Americans, as Baltimore did in hiring David Zinman...
...live woman. Without asking the boss for permission. Max allows the damaged spaceship to dock. As it turns out, three convicted murderers and political terrorists who have killed all the crew members are flying the damaged ship: An enormous macho brute named Mendaz; a cunning German political terrorist named Gunther; and their beautiful female companion, Maggic, over whom they both fight...
...majority opinion, which stated for the first time that racial classifications were constitutionally "suspect," helped establish a foundation for decisions striking down racial discrimination. But Black also found that "pressing public necessity may sometimes justify" restrictions on racial groups. That is worrisome, says Stanford Constitutional Scholar Gerald Gunther. "The unsettling aspects of Korematsu are not removed by the fact that 40 years later someone can say that it shouldn't have happened...