Word: harrimans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bronfman's first wife Ann and their other four children. The presiding judge flew in by helicopter just before the three-minute ceremony, and other helicopters hired by excluded newsmen continued to whir overhead. That prompted one of Bronfman's closest neighbors, former New York Governor Averell Harriman, to remark, "They really ought to be shot down." The bride ignored such interruptions. Wearing a striped chiffon dress and large white hat, she skipped spiritedly across the lawn after the ceremony. The guests sipped Perrier Jouët, a Seagram champagne. And amid all the display, a family spokesman...
DIEM. The coup against Diem was planned with the knowledge of Dean Rusk and Averell Harriman at the State Department, Robert S. McNamara and Roswell Gilpatric at the Defense Department and the late Edward R. Murrow at the U.S. Information Agency. The U.S. hoped Diem's overthrow would halt the domestic turmoil that had weakened South Viet Nam. But the CIA's director, John A. McCone, vigorously opposed the overthrow of Diem on the reasoning that none of the generals enlisted in the coup would be half as effective a leader as the man they wanted to bring...
...them former high Government officials, to get advice on how to advance Middle East negotiations toward a settlement after the disappointing failure of his shuttle diplomacy. The participants in the talks included former Secretary of State Dean Rusk, former Under Secretary of State George Ball and former Ambassador Averell Harriman...
...Research Company; Cabot's 10-person staff of highly-touted investment and economic experts; State Street Trust Company, the University's new custodial banker; and the five firms named this week--F. Eberstadt and Company, the Fiduciary Trust Company of New York, MacKay-Shields Financial Corporation, Brown Brothers Harriman, and Scudder, Stevens and Clark...
...York delegation took the prize for the greatest number of nationally known politicians. Crammed into the aisles were Reps. Bella Abzug, Elizabeth Holtzman, Shirley Chisholm, and Herman Badillo; ex-governor Averell Harriman; Mayor Abraham Beame; former Rep. Mario Biaggi; City Councilman Meade Esposito; writer Michael Harrington; and AFL-CIO leader Albert Shanker...