Word: suits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carter's suit coat is draped over the arm of the couch, the label up: "Hart Schaffner & Marx, A. Cohen & Sons, Americus, Ga." The walls ripple with impressionism. Behind his chair is Childe Hassam's Flag Day, and to his right another Hassam, Old House at Easthampton. Near the door, Niagara Falls plunges silently, a swirl of delicate blues and pinks in an oil by John Twachtman. Fronting the desk is a huge painting of Rosalynn and Amy from the days in the Georgia statehouse, simple, almost ethereal...
...made the ascent? "It was a personal challenge," he said, "a challenge to my ingenuity." The trade building, Willig said, "was very appealing. Very vertical." Confronted by his talent, temperament and instant popularity, New York City soon surrendered and canceled the $250,000 suit. Instead, said Mayor Abraham Beame, the city would settle for a fine of $1.10-a penny for every floor...
...decorous elms as Harvard staged its first normal graduation exercises since the end of World War II. The morning ceremonies that spotlighted the new graduates concluded with the awarding of honorary degrees. T.S. Eliot was among the recipients. Another was a white-haired man in a plain gray suit who rose in response to President James Bryant Conant's swift and eloquent citation: "An American to whom freedom owes an enduring debt of gratitude, a soldier and statesman whose ability and character brook only one comparison in the history of the nation...
Richard Guse, a 42-year-old Mayville, Wis., businessman, finished the Aurora race in a little over seven hours, coming in third. He wore a red, white and blue bathing suit, down the front of which he poured ice cubes periodically. He said he runs a marathon each month. He started running a number of years ago when he was plagued by insomnia and drowsy spells. The exercise pulled him out of his physical slump. "I owe my whole life to it," he says now. Like Meza (and enough other middle-aged runners to suggest a personality pattern), Guse says...
Robert W. Keefer '72 said yesterday he will file the suit in Massachusetts Small Claims Court. He will ask for court costs, the alleged $2 overcharge for storing his pick-up truck, and up to $400 in punitive damages for "deliberately overcharging on storage rates...