Word: seniors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...after a divorce that distanced him from his four children. Running the family florist business with a brother now that his father had been immobilized by illness. Looking happy and even jubilant tonight. Good singer, John ny, best in class. Not a bad actor. Played George Gibbs in the senior production of Our Town and still thinks of Grover's Corners when, from soaring Pine Hill across the river, he looks down on the tilted strew of toy buildings that are Kittanning...
...Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko (see following story), lest the willingness to continue negotiations be interpreted as "the wrong signal at the wrong time." His fellow Senator Daniel Moynihan said that "to send Vance to Geneva is to participate in the butchery now going on in the Soviet Union." A senior White House official declared: "We're in a bit of a pushing match and we'll have to push it out with them...
...sole passenger of a sightseeing bus. Not recognizing him, a White House official asked for his name. "John Rockefeller," he replied softly, not bothering to use his distinctive middle initial. Only after several more questions did the official realize that the tall, gaunt man before him was the senior brother of one of the nation's most powerful families...
...Butterfield was also a frugal woman who disliked waste, Gamage remembered. "Her year in Social Studies she made all the food for the senior-Faculty dinner herself, because it bothered her that we were spending so much money," Gamage said...
...associates say that he never made a subordinate work after 7 p.m. He insisted that the company's 43 highest executives take fully paid three-month sabbaticals every five years, just to recharge themselves. Miller spent one sabbatical building shelves in his garage. Senior Vice President J. Joseph Kruse is convinced that Miller pushed himself to practice squash and golf (his handicap is 17) primarily to spare associates the embarrassment of putting up with an inferior player who happened to be the boss. Kruse, who often golfed with Miller for $1 a hole, was mildly annoyed by his insistence...