Word: harold
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...clearly the latest Israeli action was also an effort to chastise the Carter Administration for the visit last week of U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Harold Saunders to Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Israel. Saunders' purpose had been to assure Jordan's King Hussein that U.S. policy in the Middle East had not changed: Washington still believed that Israeli occupation of East Jerusalem and the West Bank is illegal. The U.S. hoped to convince Hussein that the time had come for him to join the peace process and to strengthen Sadat's position in the negotiations, increasing the chances...
...epitomized by Nobel-Prize-winning Physicist Richard Feynman's abstruse calculations involving quantum electrodynamics?faculty members are eagerly sought out for advice by business and government. Faculty members are permitted up to 52 days annually of outside consulting work, which supplements salaries averaging $28,100. Caltech's past president, Harold Brown, was so well known as a top nuclear-weapons specialist that Jimmy Carter whisked him from Pasadena to become Secretary of Defense. Large high-technology companies, such as Beckman Instruments and TRW, both founded by Caltech alumni, value their close ties to the campus. So too did Los Angeles...
...other building materials. Howe now admits that she in fact received the goods from Somerville Lumber after ordering them. But in sworn testimony "signed under the pains and penalties of perjury," Howe denied ever receiving the building materials. The case was eventually settled out of court. Somerville Lumber owner Harold Cohen refused to talk about the suit, apparently fearing retribution by the Howe family. "I admit it," he said. "I'm a coward...
Supreme Court Chief Justice William J. Brennan Jr. last month granted a stay of the state court ruling against White. Since then, the city has allocated almost $500,000 on advertising statewide, Harold J. Carroll '65, Boston's assistant corporation counsel, said yesterday...
...Collection (Oct. 25, PBS, 9 p.m. E.D.T.). Not terribly much happens during this hour-long play by Harold Pinter. Phones ring at odd times of night. A London boutique owner unexpectedly drops in on a dress designer who lives in a baroque town house down the road. Two men almost stage a duel with delicate cheese knives. A husband fears that his wife may have had an affair in a hotel room in Leeds. Not much happens during The Collection, but by the time the play is over at least three lives have been shattered. That's the wonder...