Word: leon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Leon Reinstein, M.D. Baltimore...
...grounding order had been personally handed to McDonnell Douglas President John C. Brizendine at an unusual meeting in his Los Angeles office at 3:48 a.m. Both he and the bearer of the news, Regional FAA Director Leon C. Daugherty, had been called from their homes to keep their rendezvous. The key passage of the order declared that the engine-and-pylon assembly "may not be of proper design, material, specification, construction and performance for safe operation...
...Ohio University (of $38,000), Michigan State (of $8.5 million), and the University of Wisconsin (of $11 million). Other colleges have chosen partial divestiture, or selling stock selectively in those companies that fail to observe the Sullivan principles, a set of guidelines established by the Rev. Leon Sullivan, a black civil rights activist and General Motors board member, which outline affirmative-action policies. Among them: Amherst ($1 million), Smith ($680,000), Columbia ($2.7 million), Boston University ($7 million), Brandeis ($350,000), Yale ($900,000), Vassar ($2.2 million), Ohio State...
...Leon R. Tarver Jr., a former Secretary of community affairs for Louisiana, may become the first black faculty member of the K-School. Tarver is the "likely and leading candidate" for the post, Ira A. Jackson '70, associate dean of the K-School, said Monday...
...Driving through Nebraska, he picked up a hitchhiker, Joe Szymankiewicz, 43, an Ohio parole violator who had spent 16 years behind bars for forgery, burglary, theft and other crimes. For several weeks they roamed the country, ending up on Feb. 3, 1973, in Room 4 of the Ponce de Leon Motel in Tallahassee. Next morning, a maid discovered Szymankiewicz dead in bed. He had been bludgeoned and shot twice...