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...drove six blocks to the school; she may have been searching for her employer's other two children, who were away on field trips. Left behind in the bloody school bathroom after the rampage was Dann's .357 Magnum, for which she had a permit. Asked Winnetka Police Chief Herbert Timm: "How did a woman with that kind of background get licensed to carry...
...financial clout, cable could one day bid for the rights to major events like the World Series -- though whether it could successfully take such events away from "free TV" is doubtful. "It will snow in July before you see the World Series or the Super Bowl on cable," says Herbert Granath, president of ABC's cable division. "Congress would intervene to prevent that...
Those who are confident that Amsterdam has the skills to run the Post wonder how she will fare in a news organization where many consider journalistic ethics to be an oxymoron. Last year Amsterdam abruptly resigned from Manhattan,inc., claiming that Owner and Publisher D. Herbert Lipson was interfering too much in editorial matters. Before signing a three-year contract at a reported salary of $200,000 at the Post, however, Amsterdam says she received assurances that she will be given a free hand to edit a paper that is "accurate, responsible, well-reported and ethical." The liberal- leaning editor...
Another debate that has embroiled the campus in recent years focuses on the role of the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace. Founded in 1919 with a $50,000 grant from Herbert Hoover, the semi-independent research center is officially dedicated to demonstrating the "evils of the doctrine of Karl Marx," and has long functioned as a conservative think tank. Its close ties to the Reagan Administration have prompted protests from faculty members who wish either to bring the institution under tighter academic governance or to obtain a divorce. Tensions between the Stanford faculty and Hoover flared last year...
...sums sought by irate debtors are approaching bank-busting sizes. Brothers Herbert, Lamar and Nelson Hunt of Texas are suing a consortium of 22 U.S. and foreign banks for $1.5 billion, charging that the lenders committed fraud and conspiracy to force their silver-and-oil empire into bankruptcy...