Word: howards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Getty hit it. When he died last week at 83, after a long illness, his fortune, built mostly around his majority interest in Los Angeles-based Getty Oil Co., stood at more than $1 billion. Like that other billionaire loner, the late Howard Hughes, Getty started out with inherited wealth. But he was certainly less like Hughes, the eccentric playboy-pilot, than like the original Mellons and Rockefellers, a crusty, supremely self-disciplined original who determinedly set out to build a business empire-and succeeded even beyond his own expectations...
...successor as Getty Oil president might be Norris Bramlett, 59, Getty's administrative assistant since 1968. Most of Getty's fortune, which he kept mainly in Getty Oil stock, will apparently be given to charities, under a will said to have been prepared years ago. Unlike Howard Hughes, Jean Paul Getty was surely too careful to leave the future of his creation to chance and the courts...
Honor committees composed of cadets hear 100 or so cases a year. Most are for violations of the code in dealing with absurdly picayune incidents, such as a cadet's lying about having shined his shoes. When he was Secretary of the Army, Howard ("Bo") Callaway complained, "The honor code often deals with trivia." No matter: the trivial could get a cadet "separated"-expelled-as surely and swiftly as the significant...
...help to get jobs and obtain positions in schools. None of these results is desirable and all are detrimental to minority and majority alike. Let's end affirmative racism and start working toward a system of evaluation where everyone is treated fairly on the basis of his abilities alone. Howard C. Williams...
Whole songs and chunks of dialogue disappeared and new material had to be learned. Sets and costumes changed. "It was Dunkerque," recalls Routledge. "I never knew how I would get to the end of the show. Sometimes I didn't know which way I was facing." Adds Howard: "I couldn't sleep or eat. I found it hard to focus my mind on what I was doing onstage. I became a zombie, an automaton." But, says Howard, the endless changes that were made in the show were only "like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic...