Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nothing new in Hodding Carter's critique? It added as much, or as little, to public knowledge as had the original Westmoreland broadcast. CBS's charge that the Saigon top brass had misled L.B.J. about enemy troop strength relied largely on evidence from a former CIA analyst, Samuel Adams to whom CBS paid $25,000. But Adams had previously made his case elsewhere and often: in congressional testimony, in court, in a Harper's article. To this old story CBS added the engrossing dramatics of witnesses defending themselves. The network also added hype, although it now regrets...
...DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS Edited by Robert Latham and William Matthews; University of California; 11 volumes...
...young servant was "mighty pretty," thought Samuel Pepys, and it was not long before his wife "did find me embracing the girl con my hand sub su coats." In that babel of cryptic foreign words, inscribed in an equally cryptic shorthand, Pepys confided to his diary all the earthiest details of his rakish life in London in the 1660s. There was plenty to confide. Mrs. Pepys made him dismiss the girl. Pepys gave his servant a lofty talk, warning her to "have a care for her honour and to fear God." He then paid her 20 shillings to tell...
...similar drama was unfolding, meanwhile, at the annual meeting of GAP in Charlotte, N.C. Stockholders witnessed a bruising battle between the company's current chairman, Jesse Werner, 66, and Samuel Heyman, 44, a Connecticut shopping-center magnate and owner of 5.7% of GAF's stock, over how to liquidate the moribund company. Factions on both sides have been attacking each other in a blitz of newspaper ads, questioning each other's competence and judgment. At one point, the Heyman group distributed a chart showing how Werner's salary and bonuses had gone from about...
...urge the University to reconsider this decision. Stephen E. Cornell Assistant Professor of Sociology Julio Samuel Valenzuela Assistant Professor of Sociology Jeff A. Weintraub Assistant Professor of Sociology and Social Studies Kiku Adatto Assistant Professor of Sociology