Word: rans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...future Samuel Eliot Morisons will treat his tenure as dean. Anyone in Rosovsky's position of power naturally will have these worries and vanities: he recently asked a Crimson reporter why The Crimson gave so much press to an affirmative action demonstration by 200 in the Yard but ran no story on The New York Times's editorial praise of his educational review. Rosovsky's concern is that history may not treat him so well--although he did balance the budget--both because the review, as far as it has progressed to date, seems headed towards empty grand statements...
...resultant world redistribution of income caused a mad dash of American university presidents over to the Persian Gulf in search of grant money; presidents were often nonplussed to run into several of their colleagues at once in the lobby of the Riyadh Hilton. But one president nobody ever ran into over there was President Bok. He didn't have to go; they came...
...appointment ran into various kinds of masters' opposition, some thinking him not distinguished enough to run the College office, others lobbying against him because they had conflicts with him in the past about undergraduate education. But administrative sources say Rosovsky is making a short-term versus long-term trade-off. He has bartered immediate controversy, never very strong concerning administrative appointments anyway, for the belief that Fox will ultimately make decisions and give hard answers to the housing mess...
...long battle with Tidewater management and Standard Oil (New Jersey), which dominated Tidewater, Getty by 1937 had won control of Mission Corp., a holding company with substantial shares in Tidewater and Skelly Oil (Getty did not win numerical control of Tidewater until 1951). During World War II, he ran Tulsa's Spartan Aircraft Co., a Skelly subsidiary, forcing supervisors to sit behind a huge eight-ball if they did not meet production schedules...
...things in cans from jam to ham, jitterbugging, frozen steaks, cigars and the incredible generosity of G.I.'s - who were paid five times as much as a tommy. There was also the legend of Yankee sexual rapacity and capacity. "They're overfed, overpaid, oversexed and over here," ran the familiar litany - to which the Yanks had a less quoted riposte about the British: "They're underfed, underpaid, undersexed and under Eisenhower...