Word: silents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...share, or a possible total of some $140 million. The rest of Toolco's divisions will be massed under a new umbrella organization called the Summa Corp., presumably for the Latin word meaning highest. The billion-aire-in-hiding, who is reportedly living in Managua, Nicaragua, was expectably silent on his reasons for the sale. Hughes' ex-Financial Adviser Noah Dietrich speculated that "he needs cash" to shore up his Nevada gambling interests and the Hughes Airwest airlines, both hard hit in the recession. Hughes may also need a reserve against the pressure of several pending lawsuits, especially...
...useless," was awakened by his wife Maxine after she heard the news on a radio broadcast. "It was 8 o'clock in the morning, a time when I am usually asleep and in some kind of metaphysical state," he said later in the day. "At first I was silent, then glad-delighted, in fact." Porter, who lives on a farm near Oxford, was skeptical when informed that he had won. "Reporters told me that last year and I hadn't," he explained...
...from the road went to Associate Editor Jonathan Larsen, who wrote the story. For Larsen, who recently served as our Saigon bureau chief, writing about the feminine side of presidential politics offered an interesting contrast. "In Viet Nam," he says, "the wives of some politicians are their husbands' silent business partners, and often you hear about them only when a scandal breaks. Here they have become vocal members of the team and must go on display for public approval. The American wives have it tougher...
...requiring a thorough knowledge of explosives. The bombs sent last week to Israelis were presumably mailed by Arab terrorists. The Israeli embassy in London said that one of the envelopes contained a leaflet from the Black September organization, which was responsible for the Munich murders. Black September itself remained silent...
...seems improbable that current Harvard classes are precursors of another silent generation. They have been politicized over the past five years, and this politicization has wrought new biases. Some students have drifted leftward while others have abandoned the radical heritage of 1967-70. But very few have remained above the fray and as a group students will not likely resort to the political dumbfoundedness of a generation...