Word: herbert
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What is disturbing about this practice is that the cartoons themselves bear no mention that they are part of a Mobil public relations campaign, and most of the papers that run the cartoons make no effort to volunteer that information. When the issue was advertisement by anti-Mobil groups, Herbert Schmertz, Mobil's vice-president for public affairs, wrote: "The public has a right to know who is behind any advocacy effort, and for whom the advocate is speaking. That applies to material from a corporation, or from a group that labels itself as public interest." How quickly they forget...
DIED. William Herbert Sheldon, 78, psychologist who developed a theory of "somatotypes" correlating varieties of human physique with behavior; of a heart ailment; in Cambridge, Mass. After studying with Carl Gustav Jung in Switzerland, Sheldon returned to the U.S., where he interviewed several thousand subjects for the theory he popularized. People with a frail physique and introverted behavior he called ectomorphs; those muscular in build with a predisposition for physical activity were mesomorphs; and those fleshy in shape and outgoing in personality were endomorphs. Sheldon also did research in the relation between these body types and organic disease...
...TIMES Arms Bazaar may seem to be a conspiracy book. Business and political figures from Herbert Kalmbach to Prince Bernhard of Holland are involved in one way or another. But Sampson is not paranoid, merely thorough. The arms trade, with its manufacturers so dependent on large-sale, precarious government contracts, is one of the most lucrative and integral to the western world...
...match in large part owes its success to the efforts of its namesake--George Herbert Walker. At a meeting on December 21, 1920, Walker, who was then serving as president of the United States Golf Association, offered to donate an International Challenge Trophy. The press referred to the trophy as the "Walker Cup" and the name stuck...
Radner plans to begin his research at Harvard with "a criticism of the textbook picture of economic man as a rational thinker," he said. Building on work of political scientist Herbert Sinon, Radner said he hopes to develop mathematical models of how people actually behave in complex economic situations...