Word: haviland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Northeastern will try to counter Harvard's defenses with a disciplined, slow-down style of play aimed at getting the percentage shot. Tom Moxley, a 6-4 senior forward, is Northeastern's top scoring threat, and 6-7 center John Haviland is its top rebounder...
...grim. Often, to give his aching right hand a rest, he clasped hands behind his back. Finally, at 7:15 he and his escorts left the cocktail party to travel two blocks by limousine to the other side of the building for the grand entrance. As Labor Official Tom Haviland put it: "If he had walked, he would have had to shake 9,000 hands...
...Haviland had one of the more thankless jobs: arranging the seating for the status-conscious laborites. There were 1,100 tables spread over 31 acres of bare concrete floor. Haviland dodged the worst of the problem by parceling out blocks of tables to the locals and councils to let them wrangle it out themselves. The size of the blocks was a telling reflection of Chicago labor's power distribution-the Teamsters commanded 275 tables, while the building trades got 190 and the steelworkers...
Died. Noel Haviland Field, 66, sometime U.S. State Department official (1926-36) and a mysterious figure in cold war politics; in Budapest. Urbane and multilingual, the London-born, Harvard-educated descendant of an American Quaker family left State in 1936 to work for the League of Nations, and later became wartime European head of the Unitarian Service Committee's relief activities. Fired from that post because of allegations that he was sympathetic to Communists, Field went to Prague, and three weeks before the beginning of the Alger Hiss trial was abducted to Hungary by Communist agents. He was stigmatized...