Word: heinz
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...begun a giant cleanup campaign. They have already gone a long way toward "saving" Lake Zurich by spending $67 million to build three-stage chemical-and sewage-treatment plants in the lake's watershed. As a result, swimming is again permitted everywhere on the lake and, says Dr. Heinz Ambiihl, chief fresh-water expert of Zurich's Federal Institute of Technology, "If the water is not more blue, it is at least less brown." Current plans call for the installation of such plants in cities throughout Switzerland at a cost of $2.5 billion-an enormous expense...
...want us to do something so uselessly sad." ··· Cutting in on other people's dancing partners is an old, usually honored American custom. Not so in Britain, as Lord Snowdon, husband to Princess Margaret, unwittingly proved at a party thrown by Canned Food King HJ. Heinz II. Seeing the alluring 42-year-old Countess of Westmorland dancing with Peter Cazalet, a trainer of the royal horses, Snowdon tried to cut in. Snapped Cazalet: "This is not America." The rejected Snowdon tossed a glass of white wine on Cazalet; for good measure, Snowdon later showered him again...
...ever since he graduated from Manhattan's Juilliard School in 1952 and found that there were just not enough jobs available for brass and woodwind players. Being a trumpeter, he understood the problem firsthand. To get his orchestra started, Boudreau walked the streets knocking on doors, until H.J. Heinz II, head of H.J. Heinz Co., gave him $15,000 and Duquesne University matched it. Ever since, he has been floating his barge up, down and around the Allegheny, Monongahela, Ohio and Mississippi rivers, drawing audiences to the riverbanks for the kind of experience more often enjoyed in the past...
...HEINZ Kissinger was born in the small village of Fuerth, in Franconia, on May 27, 1923. His father was a professor at the gymnasium, or prep school, in Fuerth; his Jewish upbringing was marked by an early respect for scholarship. But by 1930, the Nazis had seized power in Franconia, and after eight years of social torture and humiliation, the Kissinger family was forced to abandon its home and migrate to America...
...Schlieffen plan, which might easily have been met and thwarted. The strategy was dropped, however, when a German major, flying in a snowstorm, was forced down in Belgium with a full set of war plans that was seized by the Allies. The substitute plan sent General Heinz Guderian's spectacular armored thrust through the seemingly impassable Ardennes to catch the French near Sedan, a critically weak point in their defenses...