Word: walls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...legalistic strategy held good for a while. For two years Richard Levy, the union's attorney, ran up against the stone wall of Harvard's formidable briefs, and in early 1976 the regional director of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) accepted Harvard's argument. But later that year the parent NLRB in Washington startled University administrators by agreeing to hear the union's appeal-an extraordinary development, and one that Steiner now says gave him the first indication that Harvard's position might not be invulnerable. Then last May, the NLRB delivered the real shocker, reversing the regional Board...
...likes to sit in a large, sunny living room filled with old furniture as comfortable and shabby as an old sweater. There are hanging plants, a piano with a West Virginia wall-hanging above it and a big, dark-stained dining table where the 11 inhabitants eat the common supper they take turns cooking. A brown-and-white cat watched us steadily from the sill of a bay window. "It adopted us," Luscomb says, watching the cat swish its tail and survey a spider crawling on the outside of the glass...
...along the interstate while an afternoon sun reddens behind exhaust fumes. The natives in the back seat are restless. Bored with counting stalled vehicles and CB radio antennas, they have discussed Star Wars to a tatter. The day's second rendition of 99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall has petered out at bottle No. 37. Now sullen silence prevails, punctuated only by stage whispers to the effect that some parents feed their kids, for cryinoutloud. Egg McMuffined for breakfast, Burger Kinged at lunch and Stuckeyed in between, the little ones are hungry again. For that matter...
Family Pact. The struggle pits Hughes' first cousin, Houston Lawyer William Rice Lummis (pronounced Lumm-us), 48, against Chester Davis, 66, the Wall Street in-fighter who in 1973 finally won the twelve-year TWA antitrust suit for Hughes and became a major power within Summa. At stake is what remains of Hughes' fortune, estimated to have been as high as $1.8 billion in the late 1960s (excluding Hughes Aircraft Co.) but now assessed by Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith at no more than $168 million. If no will is found, Lummis, who is the court-appointed temporary...