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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...paintings on the White House walls was switched without announcement or ceremony last month, but not because the subject was unknown. The reason is that former President Richard Nixon, 71, never did like the portrait of him by Alexander Clayton that hung for three years outside the East Room. So last January, Nixon personally commissioned Houston Painter J. Anthony Wills, 72, to produce a new likeness for $20,000. Wills, who had done Dwight Eisenhower's White House portrait and had also rendered Henry Kissinger for the State Department, went to New York City to see his subject...
Like Clark before him, Schroeder had entered the hospital suffering from the final stages of cardiomyopathy, a progressive weakening of the heart muscle. While the cause of Clark's condition was unknown, Schroeder's was due to the most common form of heart disease: atherosclerosis, a narrowing of the arteries that chokes off the blood supply to the heart...
...Unknown. Celtic has traditionally had two tenured members, but both of them retired this year. New Chairman Sean O. Coileain may want some senior level company...
...timidating males insecure about muscle bound women. The persons Supergirl bashes are two painfully stereotypical redneck truckers with ungentlemanly designs on Supergirl's too, too solid flesh. She can't even bring herself to hit the amazingly unthreatening invisible monster that tears up the countryside, choosing for some unknown reason a more ladylike lightning bolt. And why is it that someone who can fly has to crawl across a shaking floor instead of flying across...
...those days was an abandoned and unknown way of transmitting a radio signal," says Loren L. Wyss '55-8, a former station president. There were only two FM stations in Boston, and they "appealed to a few music freaks because of [FM's] high fidelity," Wyss says...