Word: herbert
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Prince Alexis Obolinsky of New York City, reputed to be one of the world's best backgammon players will attend the match according tournament director Herbert Foster. Other participants will determine it Obolinsky will be allowed to play, he said yesterday...
...unions in Philadelphia each push the percentage of man-hours worked by blacks up from a previous level of about 4% to 26% by next year. Now, in view of Nixon's new anti-quota stance, department officials announced that the plan was under review. N.A.A.C.P. Labor Director Herbert Hill contends that "for all practical purposes, the day-to-day enforcement of the Philadelphia Plan has come to an end." Still, a Philadelphia plumbing contractor, Russell Associates, was barred from federal work last week for failure to conform to minority hiring agreements...
...boring, misleading, pseudoscientific and trivial, and amounts to little more than "ponderous restatements of the obvious" masked by a "smoke screen of jargon." In fact, Andreski suggests, little has been added to man's knowledge about himself since the death in 1903 of the English social philosopher Herbert Spencer...
Although other U.S. aircraft companies, especially McDonnell Douglas and Lockheed, have tried hard to get into China, the only American manufacturer invited to make a presentation was Boeing. Both Miller and his second in command, Herbert Grueter, are convinced that their inside track was due to Chinese officials' familiarity with the 707, which the French and Pakistan national airlines regularly fly into Peking. (Air Force One, the presidential jet, also is a 707.) Even so, Boeing's salesmen used every method they could think of, including visits to Chinese offices in Hong Kong and advances through intermediaries, before...
...inherited a city uniquely devoted to opera," says Kurt Herbert Adler, a man uniquely devoted to opera. Adler is the general director of the San Francisco Opera and last week, as his company kicked off its 50th-anniversary season, citizens and patrons were busy proving their devotion. In what other major American city would the mayor set aside a big chunk of downtown (Union Square) and invite 10,000 for a musicale? Where else would Jesus Freaks mingle with bankers and hard hats to watch Fafner the Dragon chase Wagner's Rhinemaidens and the clowns from I Pagliacci...