Word: hyman
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...certainly none of them who were adults and participating in any way." Besides being so obviously untrue, Reagan's statement shocked Jews and many others for whom it is an article of faith that the horrors of the Holocaust should never be forgotten or dismissed. As Hyman Bookbinder of the American Jewish Committee pointed out last week, Kohl himself is to visit one of the concentration camps this Sunday...
...Questionable entertainment and gifts. In 1982 General Dynamics headquarters maintained a $1.24 million account, which was used, against Government rules, to entertain Pentagon officials. Gifts have flowed freely. In 1977 General Dynamics gave a pair of diamond earrings worth $1,125 to the wife of Admiral Hyman Rickover, who until 1981 headed the Navy's nuclear-propulsion program. The company argues that the gift was made with no "intent" to get favors in return...
...largest military contractor, with $7.2 billion in Pentagon business in 1984. According to testimony before the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, the company billed the Government for an $18,000 country-club admissions fee, $1,125 worth of jewelry given to then Admiral Hyman Rickover's wife and the charge for boarding a company executive's dog at a kennel. Last week Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger suspended payments of roughly $40 million to General Dynamics for at least 30 days while the Pentagon investigates whether the company has bilked the taxpayers by billing...
...Hyman Rickover, father of the nuclear navy, friend of congressional committee chairmen, was accustomed to getting his way with defense contractors. Once, according to congressional investigators, while visiting General Dynamics' Electric Boat shipyard in Groton, Conn., the crusty admiral admired a horn-handled fruit knife and idly declared that he would like to have a dozen of them. Shipyard executives hopped to. The handle was shipped off to a General Dynamics' lab, where analysis revealed that it had been made from the horn of a rare Southeast Asian buffalo. More buffalo horn was sent for, and a dozen...
...extraordinary debut. To protest Taiwan's presence at the Games, China boycotted the Olympics from 1956 to 1976. In 1979, Peking agreed to compete at future Games side by side with Taiwan, but then joined the U.S.-led 1980 Moscow boycott. Like U.S. Volleyball Ace Flo Hyman and her teammates, Chinese Spiker Lang Ping, better known as the "Iron Hammer," had patiently waited for another shot at Olympic glory...