Word: mr
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dozen experts on the current state of the economy, and Economic Correspondent George Taber, who interviewed Administration policymakers. Taber also compiled background on Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal and found that "it's impossible to spend more than five minutes around the man and not call him Mike. Mr. Secretary just wouldn't sound right." In addition to conducting interviews at the Treasury, Taber spent some time in Blumenthal's limousine, chatting with the Secretary as he went from one meeting to another. In the course of those drives, Taber learned that in Secret Service lingo, Blumenthal...
Since I'm neither blue collar nor drive a pickup truck, I thought perhaps Schickel had merely missed me in the overall picture of Mr. Eastwood's audiences. But I can't believe that he never noticed any other women in those long lines outside the theaters. The Eastwood image of strong, quiet masculinity turns on a large female audience, even here in suburbia...
...appalled at the general tenor of Mr. Peter Melnick's article on minority recruitment which appeared in the January 23, 1978 Crimson and amazed at the number of erroneous attributions and misrepresentations contained therein. Since the recruitment of talented minority students is one of the vital concerns of the Admissions Committee and Mr. Melnick's article contained so many misimpressions and fabrications, I am compelled to set the record straight on two of the more egregious inaccuracies...
...undergraduates in the recruitment process. Our experience has been that students are effective in identifying and encouraging talented high school students to apply and, upon admission, to come to Harvard/Radcliffe. Minority students have been extraordinarily helpful in recruiting minority high school students for the colleges and, contrary to Mr. Melnick's conclusions, their efforts have been held in highest regard by the Committee. --Robert P. Young...
Cheating was not restricted to public officials. Six local accountants taught the proprietors how to save taxes by hiding income. But the best teacher was a "Mr. Fixit" named Philip Barasch. Unaware of the investigators' true identity, Barasch, a big Chicago landlord and self-styled "business broker," guided them every step of the way, telling them the hour inspectors would show up and the exact amount to give them (with Barasch's business card enclosed). The only officials he did not advise bribing were police because, he said, "if you pay off a cop, they keep coming around...