Word: ralph
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Millionaire John Dyson, 43, brought a $6 million war chest to New York's Democratic Senate primary, as well as the encouragement of Governor Mario Cuomo and New York City Mayor Ed Koch. Dyson's opponent Mark Green, 41, a former consumer advocate with Ralph Nader's Congress Watch, had just $800,000, most of it raised from small contributions through what Green called his "Mark of Dimes" campaign. Just before the election, Dyson blanketed the airwaves with commercials, while Green managed to get only a couple of short spots onto the TV screen. Yet when the polls closed last...
...marked the second coming of cocaine. It was the perfect drug for the Me generation. "The new morality of young America is success, the high- performance ethic," says University of Massachusetts Professor Ralph Whitehead. "Pot bred passivity. On alcohol you can't perform well. You smell. People can tell when you've been drinking. But cocaine fits the new value system. It feeds it and confounds it. Young adults walk a tight line between high performance and self-indulgence, and cocaine puts the two together...
HENRY R. LUCE 1898-1967 EDITOR- IN- CHIEF: HENRY ANATOLE GRUNWALD CHAIRMAN AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER: J. RICHARD MUNRO PRESIDENT AND CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER: N. J. NICHOLAS JR. CHAIRMAN OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: RALPH P. DAVIDSON CORPORATE EDITOR: RAY CAVE...
...Anne Callahan, MaryAnne Golon, Paula Hornak Kellner, Gary Roberts, Carol Saner, Nancy Smith- Alam, Robert B. Stevens, Mary Themo Photographers: Eddie Adams, Walter Bennett, William Campbell, Sahm Doherty, Michael Evans, Rudi Frey, Dirck Halstead, Peter Jordan, Shelly Katz, David Hume Kennerly, Neil Leifer, Ben Martin, Harry Mattison, Mark Meyer, Ralph Morse, Robin Moyer, Carl Mydans, James Nachtwey, Matthew Naythons, Stephen Northup, Bill Pierce, David Rubinger, Antonio Suarez, Ted Thai, Diana Walker...
...improved the medical and law schools, founded the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (1872) and the business school (1908). He also presided over the establishment of a college for women, Radcliffe (1894), originally known mainly as "the Annex." He recruited a brilliant faculty, not only notable lecturers like Ralph Waldo Emerson (on philosophy) and William Dean Howells (Italian literature), but younger teachers like Adams, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., William James and George Santayana. (They had a sense of their own value too. Said Shakespeare Scholar George Lyman Kittredge, after falling off his dais: "At last, I find myself...