Word: roger
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...project, which began last month, is not an emergency repair. No books in the 42-year-old library have been damaged, said Associate Librarian Roger E. Stoddard...
Houghton, connected to Widener by a second-story overground bridge, contains most of Harvard's rare books, including first editions of Milton and original manuscripts of Hawthorne, said Associate Librarian Roger E. Stoddard...
Early this year, it seemed that Roger Hedgecock, 38, San Diego's dashing, telegenic liberal Republican mayor, was leading a charmed political life. A former environmental lawyer and avid surfer, Hedgecock was elected in May 1983 to complete the term of Republican Pete Wilson, who had left for the U.S. Senate. In 16 months Hedgecock formed a broad-based political coalition in a traditionally conservative city, and was considered a shoo-in for election to a full four-year term this November. But last week a county grand jury returned a 15-count felony indictment against the mayor...
Voters in Iowa have established a tradition of tossing out incumbent Senators, having disposed of two of them in that fashion over the past six years. They may be set to reinforce the pattern. The victim would be conservative Republican Roger Jepsen, who is being challenged by five-term liberal Congressman Tom Harkin. Jepsen, regarded by many as pompous, was badly hurt by the revelation that seven years ago he had visited a Des Moines sex club. Harkin has lately been running ahead of Jepsen in the polls, but observers warn that it is still too early to count...
...some of the posters carried by pickets indicated, many GM employees are still angry about the huge bonuses that company executives gave themselves. GM Chairman Roger Smith last year got a bonus of $865,490 on top of his salary of $625,000. While the award might have been merited in view of the $3.7 billion GM earned in 1983, it was a dreadful labor relations blunder. Workers, who had been enduring wage freezes for more than two years, were outraged. Robert Sidwell, 45, a machinist at the Chevrolet plant in Parma, still has neither forgotten nor forgiven. Said...