Word: parker
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Though "any good school chorus would have done," according to John Parker Murdoch, director of the tour-sponsoring International Artists Series, he expresses pleasure at Harvard's "strong Gilbert and Sullivan tradition." The Harvard G & S singers till now have performed only inside the college or for patrons; the Savoyard encounter will mark their first big public engagement, says a group member...
...preliminary documents submitted to Federal District Court Judge Barrington Parker, Hinckley's attorneys asked that their client's case be heard by two separate juries, one to make the pro forma determination that Hinckley did indeed shoot Reagan, the other to make the critical judgment about his sanity. Hinckley's lawyers fear that once jurors see videotapes of the shooting and hear exhaustive FBI testimony about Hinckley's elaborate transcontinental drifting in the months that preceded the act, they would be incapable of reaching a verdict dispassionately on the question of his mental state. "Understandably...
...Cecil Parker, a former commissioner who will plead guilty, speaks of the corruption with a candor bordering on nonchalance. "This thing's been happening since they made county commissioners," says Parker, who at 76 is two years older than the state of Oklahoma. "Sure I took kickbacks. I never asked a man for it. They always gave it to me." Says Betty Eisenhour, who as clerk of Canadian County was an unwitting intermediary for the graft: "I always wondered why I was paying middlemen. Now I know. The commissioners were good old boys, but just between...
Theron W. Parker Gelnhausen, West Germany...
...another attack on popular tuition aid programs proves too costly, in political terms, the administration may seek added cuts in less visible areas like basic scientific research and support for the arts. "We have seen the potential dangers that Reagan has caused," says Parker L. Coddington, Harvard's director of government relations, "and we really have no time to waste in preparing for 1983." He agrees with the widely held belief that Congress would probably extend debate through January on new proposals from the White House by granting short-term appropriations for federal agencies under a so-called continuing resolution...