Word: vernon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Vernon D. Patch, director of the Boston City Drug Program and assistant professor of psychiatry at the Med School, said however that support for methadone treatment programs should continue because of "a growing density of heroin addicts in Boston...
There have been only a few private art collections in this century that have managed to define a period, a style, a mood. One of them was put together by a wealthy New Yorker named Louis Vernon Ledoux; at its peak, before he died in 1948, it contained no more than 250 Japanese wood-block prints...
...many Souths--"I certainly never saw any Scarlet O'Haras when I was growing up"--and that sweeping stereotypes of the region too often reflect simplistic or biased reasoning. He even militates quietly against the typing tendencies evident, for example, among Boston realtors: They took him directly to Mount Vernon replicas when he began house-hunting here and happened to mention his background. "Mount Vernon homes are lovely," he conceded, "but not all southerners live in them...
...field hospital. During the Depression she put her jewels into a vault, canceled their insurance, and used the money saved for a New York kitchen that fed 1,000 people daily. Her endowments to C.W. Post College of Long Island University and her own alma mater, Mount Vernon Junior College have long been the envy of less wealthy institutions. She gave well over $1,000,000 to the Washington National Symphony Orchestra...
UNDISPUTED FACTS. Shortly after the Watergate arrests, Nixon ordered Haldeman and Ehrlichman to meet with top officials of the CIA. They did so. Later that same day, newly installed Deputy CIA Director Vernon Walters told Gray that FBI attempts to trace money used by the wiretappers through Mexico might interfere with a covert CIA operation there. This slowed the FBI probe. Later Dean asked Walters whether the CIA might provide bail money and support the wiretappers if they were imprisoned. Both Walters and CIA Director Richard Helms decided that the White House was trying "to use" the agency. Walters, after...