Word: holderness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...largest bubble-gum bubble (19¼ in.), Hollingsworth for balancing a milk bottle on his head while walking 18½ miles (a truly dying art), and Father Hesburgh for accumulating more honorary degrees than anyone else ever has. Next month Hesburgh will surpass Guinness's current record holder, former President Herbert Hoover, who had 89. Hesburgh's 90th will come from Kalamazoo College in Michigan. That looks nice on the resume, but adds up to a problem in finding space for his colorful academic hoods and coming up with acceptance speeches. "It's difficult to tailor...
...addition, his wife Dena, 33, has charged her husband with desertion, and last week was named the temporary holder of his property. Merrill Lynch and Swiss American Securities also are suing the missing Lewellyn. In a final family humiliation, Lewellyn's father resigned from his bank, which has now been sold to the Hawkeye Bancorporation, a Des Moines bank holding company...
Some of the members are relatively well known. They include Katharine Graham, chairman of the Washington Post Co., for example, and Betty Ruth Hollander, holder of five patents in temperature measurement and president and founder of Omega Engineering in Connecticut. Also among the new members: Christie Hefner, 29, a corporate vice president and widely considered the hare apparent of Playboy Enterprises; Investment Adviser Julia Walsh of Julia M Walsh & Sons of Washington, D.C.; Sherry Lansing, president of Twentieth Century-Fox Productions; and Florence Skelly, president of pollsters Yankelovich, Skelly& White...
...high jump, Navy's Leo Williams, defending champ and NCAA title holder, set a new meet record, leaping 7-ft., 3 1/4-in Williams received the Outstanding Performer Award for his achievement...
Harvard record-holder Liane Rozzell--who returned to competition only recently--has a shot at taking high jump honors this afternoon, but Princeton's Sarah Chang will pose a stiff challenge Last weekend the lanky and lean Tiger was the tri-meet's only triple winner, taking the hurdles long jump and high jump...