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...beautiful smile, but she is an enormous woman -you could sit on her chest." As to how the Taylor beauty will survive the years, the lady herself had a prediction: "I'll be a nice, cuddly, gray-haired old thing, or I'll be fat as a tub of lard, with six chins resting on my bosom." -After an exhausting day in front of the cameras, the star of Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Author Richard Bach's fugue to flight now being filmed in California, was discovered by a hawk-eyed photographer to be roosting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 29, 1973 | 1/29/1973 | See Source »

...blood as a "milky solution of highly inert flurocarbons and industrial emulsifiers--in fact, not unlike Derek Bok." In a protracted game of double or nothing with Kingman Brewster at the New York Yale Club, Harvard Treasurer George F. Bennett Jr. loses the University's endowment. Posing as a tub resting on its own betters, Bennett is choose to be a contestant on Monty Hall's Let's Make a Deal, where he swaps the Harvard Classes of 77-80 for what's behind certains two and three--the Departments of Justice and Labor. "I am neither a male chauvinist...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Year Ahead: Less of the Same | 1/4/1973 | See Source »

...surplus is for Harvard as a whole. Since the early nineteenth century, the University has operated on the principle that over time each of its faculties and other departments should by and large finance themselves. "Every tub on its own bottom," or ETOB, in financial lingo...

Author: By Seth M. Kupferberg, | Title: Finances Look Rosier Again | 12/1/1972 | See Source »

...have seen Joe Namath with Raquel Welch, on the football field, and good heavens, even in the tub . . . but he looked most relaxed doing what kiddies like to do most-blowing bubbles. ROBIN CHOATE Colorado Springs, Colo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 6, 1972 | 11/6/1972 | See Source »

What can be said for the budgetary principle of Every Tub on Its Own Bottom is that it works and that it would be very hard to change. Choice between incommensurable enterprises (accounting and ethics) remain implicit and hence are resolved with a minimum of conflict and pain to the community. --Harvard and Money: A Memorandum on Issues and Choices...

Author: By Steven E. Levy, Wesley E. Profit, and Charles F. Sabel, S | Title: Getting Off Without a Conviction: Harvard's Killings in the Market | 4/19/1972 | See Source »

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