Word: hughe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Again we wish you and your family well. Hugh B. Hester Brig. Gen., U.S. Army...
...Concorde's noise, a low rumble rather than a high-pitched whine, as "devastating." A British cleric from a community near Heathrow who appeared at last week's hearing put it more poetically. "Concorde's noise is unbearable, above the threshold of pain," testified the Rev. Hugh Montifiore. "It is not hell, because hell goes on forever. It is more like a secular form of purgatory, or a gall-bladder attack that comes and goes...
...Died. Hugh Hutton, 78, acid-penned editorial cartoonist for the Philadelphia Inquirer from 1934 to 1969; following a stroke; in Philadelphia. After studying at the University of Minnesota, he worked for a string of newspapers before joining the then Republican Inquirer. In the 1930s Hutton continually lampooned the New Deal, depicting Franklin Roosevelt as a popeyed, apron-clad cook feeding the American people "campaign soothing syrup...
...York's Governor Hugh Carey was put to a stern test?and he passed with generally high marks. With New York City on the brink and unable to govern itself, he reluctantly took charge and assembled a group of businessmen, financiers and public officials to overhaul the city's spending practices and devise a rescue plan. For all the unpopular actions he was forced to take?cutting spending, raising taxes?he won respect by making hard choices with an even temper. But his record was somewhat blemished at year's end when he abruptly fired Maurice Nadjari, the special prosecutor...
...against official corruption. To his defenders he was upright, honest and dedicated in his pursuit of larcenous cops, politicians, judges and even fellow prosecutors. To his detractors he was unorthodox, ruthless, overzealous, tyrannical and inept. Last week, in a meeting that lasted less than three minutes, New York Governor Hugh Carey told Nadjari to clean out his desk. For Carey, who is thought to be eying a spot on trie Democratic national ticket, the firing could prove a costly blunder. At best, it was badly timed and handled...