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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Through a series of acquisitions, he quickly started transforming the company into a go-go builder of specialized agricultural and petroleum systems for Iron Curtain and Third World countries. By 1972 ISC was engaged in projects in 40 countries, and Kenneally was beginning to climb on the business jet-set circuit. Two years ago he and David Rockefeller, the Chase Manhattan Bank chief, were vice chairmen of the Iran-U.S. Business Council, and Kenneally was also vice chairman of the prestigious National Council for U.S.China Trade...
...committee makes its last and hardest choices. On Sunday Rogers conducts "athletic review." "It does no good to take 48 split ends and no linebackers," he explains. The director of athletics invariably appears and nervously paces the hallway outside the committee's meeting room. Sunday afternoon is set aside for "legacy review" to make sure the alumni have not been slighted. Monday morning is "geographic review," to make sure the regional mix is right. Then a waiting list of some 500 candidates must be drawn up; for most, it is Brown's polite way of saying that they...
...decision still allows police to set up roadblocks for license and registration checks, which prompted a humorous dissent from Justice William Rehnquist. He said that, in his colleagues' eyes, motorists, "like sheep, are much less likely to be 'frightened' or 'annoyed' when stopped en masse." Therefore, police can now stop "all motorists," but not "less than all motorists." Rehnquist may have had a point about the court's logic, but then there is nothing logical about the genuine anxiety many innocent motorists feel when they see a police car pull up alongside...
...first to answer both requisites. Edmund Morris is a journalist who was raised in Kenya; his portrait of a man and an epoch is written without prejudice or awe. The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt takes its subject up to the presidency; a second volume will follow. Morris has set himself a tough act, for Volume I does more than evoke the irrepressible Rough Rider. The author has also summoned a vanished era when the U.S. was a boisterous, Godfearing, patriotic country whose leaders were a full-length reflection of their constituency...
...Middies moved one ahead when their tough two-man. Gene Miller, edged Harvard's Andy Chaikovsky--who was serving softballs due to a sore shoulder--on a three-all point at 5-4 of the third set...