Word: robinsons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Chelsea School Committee Chair Bruce Robinson said "BU's offer is the only avenue left for our school system to take. This plan offers new hope to our children, so I certainly hope it becomes a reality...
...final details and wordage of the contract still needs to be worked out," said Robinson. "In the next couple of weeks a formal vote will be taken and I expect it to pass...
Step 2: Undergraduate Activity Center. The Harvard Motor House is ideally suited for this role. In fact, the University could even house all undergrads here, eliminating all complaints about campus unity. The entire House system as well as Sever, Emerson, Robinson and Harvard Halls could then be converted into a more profitable enterprise, such as an amusement park/wax museum/go-cart track. It could have a catchy name such as "Harvard Funland," "Brown University" or something wacky like that...
...conspiring with Los Angeles broker Boyd Jefferies in 1986 to drive up the stock price of Fireman's Fund insurance company from 37 7/8 to 38 just before American Express sold 9 million shares. While Jefferies confessed last year to violating securities laws, Lewis denies any wrongdoing. Neither Robinson nor American Express is expected to be charged. If convicted, Lewis could face up to five years in prison on each of 22 counts...
This double coverage results in a few collisions. In her spirited account, Child Star, the actress recalls some work with Bill ("Bojangles") Robinson in The Little Colonel: "We were the first interracial dancing couple in movie history." She was six; he was 56. In American Princess, Anne Edwards describes it differently: "An 'inside' joke was that a Temple picture was incomplete without at least one 'darky...