Word: hunts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Afro-American Studies Department Search Committee, which was supposed to announce a new appointment in March, is starting from scratch again in its hunt for new Afro Faculty. The search committee suffered a major setback last month when negotiations to bring John W. Blassingame, associate professor of History at Yale, to Harvard fell through...
...Goose Hunt. A few days after the election, Cook's father-a wealthy Nebraska insurance executive who was active in the G.O.P.-set up a goose hunt in Eagle Lake, Texas, allowing his son to hobnob with such G.O.P. luminaries as Stans and Herbert Kalmbach, then Nixon's personal lawyer. Cook testified that while sitting in a rice field, he had used the occasion to hint very broadly to Stans that he would like to have the older man's backing when he tried to win the job of chairman of the SEC after Bill Casey...
...were soybeans and wheat; this year the fastest action is in sugar and metals. On the Chicago Board of Trade, Dealer Larry Blum says, "silver was going up in a day as much as it ordinarily does in a year." The biggest silver speculator is Dallas Centimillionaire Nelson Bunker Hunt, who has used his petro-wealth to buy millions of dollars worth of future contracts for silver. Unlike most commodities gamblers, Hunt has accepted delivery on some of the metal, which he apparently intends to hoard until the price goes higher...
...least 18 U.S. firms and 23 European companies are fighting for a share of the more than $60 million that industry sources expect to rack up this year from selling electronic games. This hunt for profits could wind up in court. Atari, whose Pong machines were the first to show up in penny arcades, has secured a patent on the electronic circuitry that makes the games possible. Its management contends that other manufacturers should therefore be paying Atari a royalty on each game they produce. To the true pinball aficionado, of course, all this is beside the point; what...
...Crimson won't be in for a joy ride. Owing to the late opening of the Harvard track season, the Crimson will definitely be at the disadvantage. "Baptist will be in about the middle of the season and we won't be in their kind of shape," Hunt said last week. "We could take our lumps in some of the running events--We'll be out classed this soon...