Word: raiser
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fashion industry, shook the earth again with its annual list of the ten best-dressed men. No. 1-surprise, surprise-is one of their own: Savile Row Tailor Colin Hammick, 42, characterized by the magazine as "a coat hanger-clothes hang perfectly on him." The real eyebrow raiser is No. 2 and the only American on the list: Singer Andy Williams, whose wardrobe favors slacks and casual sweaters. The magazine insists that "he looks good no matter what he wears." Eighth is the Duke of Windsor ("our former king puts to shame many a potential fashion man"), and tenth...
...miss, for me at least, was the curtain raiser, The Public Eye. Set in an accountant's office--overwhelmed, I should say, since Robert McCleary's mile-high flats make the set just about as intimate as the rare books room of the British Museum--the play consists largely of dialogue between a stuffy English husband-type (John Archibald), a loudly attired private detective (Peter Kazaras), and, eventually, the frighteningly energetic wife (Melissa Mueller) who is the subject of their investigation. And I'm afraid that's about all I can tell if I'm not to give away...
...worst instances of PCB pollution occurred last spring. A North Carolina poultry raiser, worried over the low hatching rate of his chickens, ran independent tests and found that the fatty tissue of the birds contained up to 40 p.p.m. of PCBs (the federal limit for poultry is 5 p.p.m.). The contamination was traced to a Wilmington, N.C., fish-meal plant where PCBs were leaking from a pipe in a heating system into the meal. Officials were dismayed to learn that the leak had gone undiscovered for nearly two months and that 13,000 tons of tainted feed had been sent...
...Died. George Angus Garrett, 83, wealthy Washingtonian who was the first U.S. Ambassador to Ireland; of a heart attack; in Washington, D.C. A partner in the firm of Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith from 1940 to his retirement in 1959, Garrett was also a prominent capital host and fund raiser for philanthropic causes. Harry Truman selected him to head the U.S. legation in Dublin in 1947, then promoted him in 1950 when the mission was raised to embassy status. Garrett resigned in 1951, later championed urban redevelopment in Washington as boss of the Federal City Council...
...more shadowy figure than Gehlen himself, Reichsleiter (National Leader) Bormann rose from an obscure fund raiser for the Nazi Party to become the second most powerful official of the Third Reich. The short, stocky Bormann was Secretary to the Fuhrer, Director of the Party Chancellery, and one of the most hated and feared men in Hitler's Germany...