Word: omaha
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Mutual of Omaha, the nation's largest seller of individual and family health-insurance policies, calls itself in its advertising 'The People You Can Count On." In Pomona, Calif., a jury last month chastized Mutual for not living up to that billing by awarding Policyholder Michael Egan, 59, $5.1 million in compensatory and punitive damages. Egan's policy had promised him $200 a month for life if he should be disabled by an accident but only three months' benefits if he became unable to work because of a "non-confining sickness." Egan, an Irish immigrant roofer...
...Lampoon has announced the election of its board of officers for 1975: George Rohr '76 of Bogota, Colombia and Quincy House, President; Sanford J. Frank '76 of Springfield and Kirkland House, Treasurer; Mark P. O'Donnell '76 of Cleveland, Ohio and Lowell House, Ibis; Kurt B. Andersen '76 of Omaha, Neb. and Dudley House, Narthex; Charles P. Steinbruegge '76 of Atlanta, Ga. and Lowell House, Sanctum; Richard P. Tierney '76 of Newton and Mather House, Sackbut; Edward L. Trimble '76 of Baltimore and Lowell House, Hautboy; Stephen E. Pollack '77 of Detroit and Quincy House, Advertising Manager; and Sanford...
...pillars, it was his maverick streak that helped attract a young and capable staff to the Sun. Editorial Consultant Richard Crocker, 36, who oversees a stable of seven reporters, is on leave from his editing job at the Washington Post. Investigative Reporter Randy Brown, 34, contributed to the Omaha Sun's Pulitzer-prizewinning exposé of Boys' Town. Former Beacon Copy Chief Les Anderson, 25, was lured away from the Ridder operation along with other talented but disgruntled writers. "I was turning into a vegetable," he says. "There was always the feeling that you had to be careful...
...that what she has, she flaunts-tirelessly. This season is typical. Sills will give recitals in such cities as Syracuse, Boulder, and Birmingham, Ala. She will also appear as soloist with orchestras in Miami Beach, Houston, and Evansville, Ind., sing Lucia di Lammermoor with opera companies in Milwaukee and Omaha, star at the San Francisco Opera and visit Los Angeles with her home company, the New York City Opera...
Jerry Ford, the Omaha adoptee turned President, looked across his desk last week at Nelson Rockefeller, the dynastic heir to countless millions, and nominated him to be his Vice President, then ribbed him. "You know you are going to have to live in the old Admiral's House," he said. "You can visit your lovely home on Foxhall Road on the weekends." Admiral's House is the drafty 81-year-old home recently consigned to Vice Presidents. Rockefeller has long had his own Washington estate on Foxhall Road...