Word: homers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...everything had apparently gone smoothly. According to the affidavit filed by Benedek, he had invested heavily in three separate partnership deals arranged by Straw. One was to purchase a collection of antique furniture. The second was to buy eleven paintings that included a Mary Cassatt and a Winslow Homer. The third involved a spectacular $15 million group of 31 old masters and French impressionists, including a Rembrandt, a Titian, two Renoirs and three rare Seurats. Benedek said he put up $1.5 million for a half share in the first two deals and more than $1.8 million for a smaller share...
...DIED. Homer Capehart, 82, three-term Republican Senator from Indiana (1945-63); from complications following a hip fracture; in Indianapolis. The son of a tenant farmer, Capehart made a fortune selling jukebox equipment and got into politics after organizing a 1938 "cornfield convention" of 20,000 Republicans. As Senator, he supported farm subsidies and helped establish the Small Business Administration. An enthusiastic McCarthyite, Capehart staked his 1962 senatorial campaign on a tough anti-Cuba stand ("invade or blockade") and lost narrowly to young Birch Bayh when President Kennedy's embargo of Cuba took away his thunder...
...total number who will register is uncertain, however, there is no doubt that about 750 financially-truant students will come face-to-face with the "infamous red dot," Stephen W. Homer, director of student receivables, said yesterday...
...Homer said about 100 students went to the third floor of Holyoke Center yesterday to pay the balance of their bills, adding that the remainder would be rerouted to the Fiscal Services desk in Sanders Theater before they are allowed to register...
...painlessly introduced literally thousands of hard-to-impress gut-seekers and science concentrators to Homer's muse and the other folk tales studied in the course. Many of them seem