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...DIED. Nathaniel Owings, 81, boisterous co-founder and senior partner of the architectural leviathan Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, who presided over more than $3 billion of construction during his 40-year career, including such prestigious and innovative design commissions as New York City's Lever House, Chicago's towering John Hancock Building, and San Francisco's Crown Zellerbach Building; of lung cancer; in Jacona...
...October 28, 1636, with a grant of *400 from the Massachusetts Legislature, but its governing boards did not take their present form until 14 years later. A year after the College's founding the first Board of Overseers was appointed with six magistrates and six ministers, and they chose Nathaniel Eaton of Trinity College, Cambridge, and the University of Frankener in the Netherlands, as Harvard's first Master President. But Eaton did not survive his second year after he was indicted for assault for nearly bludgeoning his assistant to death with a walnut club The board fired...
...Marxists going to march up through the Peten (the Guatemalan rain forest), through Mexico and up to Texas?" asks Professor Nathaniel-Davis, of California's Claremont College. The answer obviously is no. But one does not need to imagine dominoes falling to worry about Mexico's vulnerable southern regions' becoming infected with Nicaraguan-style revolution. If Mexico actually did lurch left, coming under a Communist regime or, more likely, splitting apart into warring fiefs, the U.S. would be confronted by a teeming enemy (pop. 75 million) along its 2,000-mile, currently undefended border. The U.S. would...
...idea for TWNS originated with the director of special projects for Time Inc.'s magazine group, Nathaniel Lande, who heads the new service. Each weekend as TIME goes to press, Lande, his deputy Edward Nayor sand their staff will select the stories that best encapsulate the events and tone of the week. "It is a delicate art," says Lande of the alchemy that goes into the editing. "Not everything that is on a printed page works effectively when it is spoken. Nevertheless, it is our charter to honor each story's integrity while adapting it to another medium...
Though the trip was scarcely noticed at the time and is barely remembered, Chernenko has visited the U.S. One day in 1974, retired U.S. Diplomat Nathaniel Davis recalls, Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin called him at the State Department and asked whether he could bring around a "personal guest" from Moscow. The guest turned out to be Chernenko, who had come to Washington to see his daughter. She was then either an employee or, more likely, the wife of an employee of the Soviet embassy. Chernenko was interested in discussing the State Department's experience with computers in handling personnel matters...