Word: tubs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kennedy boys were not shy about their bodies, as Widow Dallas discovered when Mother Rose Kennedy asked her to deliver towels to Ted and three friends in the sauna. In the White House, John F. Kennedy once summoned her for an interview while he was soaking in the tub. "I was so uncomfortable that I took a washcloth off the rack and threw it to him to cover up. After all, he was the President of the United States!" Because she was "surrounded by the effeminate men who so often inhabit the world of rich women," Jacqueline Kennedy worried...
...Alumni Resources Committee. Foundation grants, individual donations, and one Federal Government grant also formed a sizable though fluctuating portion of the income. At the same time, the total income of P.B.H.A. reflects primarily the increases in donations made to specific committees. Each committee is, in the Harvard tradition, "a tub on its own bottom." Each is responsible for its own funds and makes no contributions of the operation of the general administration. It was stated that foundations make no grants for central administrative costs. Yet the graduate secretary (half-time), House secretary (full-time), secretary (part-time), and book-keeper...
...admitted that he is not quite sure what his new post consists of. "Since every tub sits on its own bottom now, the conception of a dean as to what the President's job consists of is very fragmented," he said...
...major Paramount motion picture starring Anthony Quinn as John Dunlop and Ali McGraw as Mary I. Bunting, the woman whose college Quinn saves by paying off the mortgage seconds before the creditors start moving the furniture out of Currier House. George Bennett sings the Henry Mancini theme song, "Every Tub on its Own Bottom." Below is a shot from the climactic final scene in which ground is broken for a cement-and-concrete nuclear reactor and photocopying center on the former site of Harvard Yard and Memorial Hall. BENNETT announces, "With construction costs rising 73 per cent a month...
...School is one of the most easily overlooked yet most innovative graduate schools in the University. It is also a financial disaster area, or in the Harvard idiom, a bottomless tub...