Word: herbert
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Though Detroit automakers have been opposed to air bags, their reaction was mixed. GM and Ford sounded as if they were tired of fighting. GM pleaded that they would "do the best possible job" to comply with the ruling; Ford Vice President Herbert Misch praised Adams for the long lead time...
...issue in a decision last week was the case of Larry G. Hardison, who became a member of the Worldwide Church of God while he was employed as a clerk at a Trans World Airways maintenance base in Kansas City, Mo. The Worldwide Church, founded in 1934 by Herbert W. Armstrong, now has some 50,000 U.S. members, who are adjured to follow kosher laws, celebrate Passover (but not Christmas), and strictly observe the Sabbath on Saturdays rather than Sunday* TWA tried to accommodate Hardison by changing his schedule, but that eventually brought him into conflict with the seniority system...
...continued to work on larger shows, however. Curiously, he first met librettist-lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II at the funeral of operetta-composer Victor Herbert in 1924, and they decided to work together. Their collaboration yielded Sunny the following year, and, most notably, Show Boat, which will have its 50th birthday next December...
...always had a p.r. official of some sort, it did not formally admit so, and he was rarely helpful to the press. But as the CIA was drawn into public controversies, the office became more professional and more open. Now p.r. is expanding to an 18-member staff under Herbert E. Hetu, a retired Navy captain...
...some would-be students endorsed by legislators get into professional schools-at least those schools heavily supported by the state. Normally, no one is the wiser, but this month a federal trial in Philadelphia threw unexpected light on what apparently has been a time-honored custom. Herbert Fineman, 56, the powerful speaker of Pennsylvania's house of representatives, was found guilty of obstructing justice during a U.S. probe into admissions practices of Philadelphia's medical and graduate schools...