Word: iii
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...doesn't have the brains to take advantage of all the advantages money can buy, he can hire himself a top-notch political consultant who does to run his campaign. Although big spenders are not unbeatable, their track record is pretty good. Representative H. John Heinz III (R-Pa.) led the list of candidates for U.S. Senate seats in spending, with a total of more than $2 million--most of it from his own $13 million bankroll...
...charge now is James R. Tolbert III, a strapping (6 ft.) former football player who lights his pipe with a chrome-plate cigarette lighter engraved "June 26, 1972"-the day Four Seasons emerged from bankruptcy after two years of ax wielding. Tolbert fired many employees, slashing the ranks at the Oklahoma headquarters from 500 to 26. Unprofitable nursing centers were closed and sold off, and acquisitions were made in new fields: aluminum and packaging. During its most recent fiscal year the company earned $2.8 million on sales of $75 million. The Four Seasons name lives on, as a subsidiary...
Archie C. Epps III, dean of students, said yesterday he had received one complaint about the searches Wednesday but had not had time to investigate. Dean Fox also said he had not had time to learn the facts of the case...
Died. Edward E. Tanner III, 55, who, under the pseudonym Patrick Dennis, wrote the 1955 bestseller Auntie Mame; of cancer; in Manhattan. Tanner was promotion manager for Foreign Affairs magazine when the eleventh publisher he tried agreed to print Mame, the zany tale of a rich young orphan and his eccentric aunt. It later became a play, a film and a Broadway musical. Tanner wrote twelve novels as Patrick Dennis and four as Virginia Rowans. "Writing isn't hard," he once said. "No harder than ditch digging...
...make radical changes in what is now called one's "lifestyle" is a fundamental of American character. "A man builds a house for his old age and sells it before the roof is finished," Alexis de Tocqueville wrote some 140 years before Charles Reich sublet his leaky Consciousness III to follow the sunset to California. Reich's evolutionary rebellion is, in fact, a mobile-home version of Consciousness III-that pot-scented notion that mankind can somehow escape civilization and its discontents. Gnomic and unpolitical, ER is part of the new solipsism and characteristic...