Word: wilford
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Early Sunday morning the Shah left the hospital and was driven to New York's La Guardia airport. Accompanied by his wife, he boarded a U.S. Air Force DC-9, which flew directly to Kelly Air Force Base outside San Antonio. The Shah entered Wilford Hall hospital at nearby Lackland Air Force Base for what an Administration spokesman called "a period of recuperation under medical supervision." The White House, which had worked out the details of the transfer Saturday night, said that it would continue to assist the Shah in finding a permanent residence. He had very few choices...
...climbed 12.6%, and Japanese Toyotas are up 13% this year. Rising prices for imports likewise give domestic manufacturers an excuse to raise their own prices. This in turn sends more money pouring abroad, depressing the dollar's value on foreign money markets. Says Chase Manhattan Bank Economist Sykes Wilford: "If people look down the road a year and see U.S. inflation at 10%, they're going to get out of dollars...
Some of the scientists at the Iowa conference were less sanguine. Wilford Weeks, of the U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, warned would-be iceberg movers: "Once you get north of the equator, you'll have nothing but a rope at the end of your tow." Other doubts were expressed. Could an iceberg be effectively insulated against melting? Would anchoring a huge block of ice off an arid coast have unexpected environmental effects...
Seven days later the story was Page One again. In prose evocative of earlier eras, Times Science Writer John Noble Wilford declared: "The search for the Loch Ness Monster has begun." Already 8,000 color photographs had been taken in the "murky waters," an "allnight vigil" had been mounted, and Expedition Leader Robert H. Rines had announced, "We have maximized our chances for success...
...church's organization shows a feudally hierarchic side of Mormonism that helps lead to its political conservatism. The impact of revelations depends on one's position in the church: Prophet Kimball's revelations can change all Mormon doctrine (Prophet Wilford Woodruff did just that on the polygamy questions in the 1890s, after a federal crackdown on polygamy sent many prominent Mormons to prison.) The revelations of the head of the Boston stake (or diocese) will affect the stake (in the choice of a branch president, for example), and each individual's revelations are restricted to his or her self...