Word: trusts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Henry Townley Heald, 71, former president of the Ford Foundation, world's largest, most influential, philanthropic trust; in Winter Park, Fla. The lanky native of Lincoln, Neb., became the first president of the Illinois Institute of Technology, where he served from 1940 to 1952. For the next four years he was chancellor of New York University and helped to unify its many schools and divisions before joining Ford in 1956. Under Heald, grants to education were nearly 50% of the $1.75 billion the Ford Foundation dispensed during the nine years of his presidency. Heald believed that foundations should...
...Britannica, rarely a source of exaggerated rhetoric, stepped out of character to say of Downing: "His character was marked by treachery, servility and ingratitude." The Britannica went on to report that a "George Downing" became a proverbial expression in New England to denote a false man who betrayed his trust. Downing Street, where the Prime Minister lives, was named for this Harvard man in what Bailyn termed a payoff for his political betrayal of Richard Cromwell...
...goings at the Palacio Tupac Amaru, and at the end two influential generals were retired from the army. General Morales had either broken up a possible coup or, as one of the tame Lima newspapers put it, had simply moved "to have his own men in positions of trust and power, normal with all incoming Presidents in most parts of the world." His guys, so to speak...
...about. He says that survival is mandatory and compromise may be its price. Only the living can change a society, never the dead. He indicates, very subtly, that perhaps Russian society can never be changed, even by revolution, since tyranny is the only tradition the Russians know, have, and trust for getting things done...
...carpings about high prices, crowds and service. Heiress-Actress Dina Merrill likes the store's ice cream and housewares but buys no furniture there; she says the prices are too high. Sniffs Ilene Barth, editor of a Manhattan weekly newspaper: "People who go to Bloomingdale's don't trust their own taste...