Word: willard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Secretary and his entourage of 40 stopped first in Nice to bone up on research materials and let some accumulated jet lag unwind-but a Simon faux pas made the brief stopover more eventful than that. Sunning on the beach with Willard C. Rappleye Jr., editor of the American Banker, he expressed in pungent terms his longstanding opinion of the Shah of Iran * who is pushing for higher and higher oil prices and whose nation was pointedly not among the countries that the Secretary would be visiting. Said Simon: "The Shah is a nut." He later explained that he meant...
...baccalaureate speech was more ambiguous, but Dean Willard L. Sperry of the Harvard Divinity School warned women against massive materialism and told them to avoid "the contagious seduction of the mass movements of our time. They invite you to unload the responsibilities of personal life upon society as a whole...
...most fascinating part of Don Nixon's testimony involved not Mitchell but Richard Nixon. Although he is now a vice president of the Marriott Corp., the hotel and restaurant chain founded by J. Willard Marriott, friend and financial backer of the President, Don Nixon has a history of stumbling into embarrassing business deals. During his rambling, flustered performance in court, he revealed just how carefully his brother has kept him at arm's length from the White House. Said he: "John Mitchell is a man that I was delegated-that designated that I should talk to him about...
...Willard F. Rockwell Jr., chairman of Rockwell International Corp., has a hard act to follow. His father, 85, was founder of the diversified manufacturing company (aerospace, electronics, auto parts, etc.) that is now one of the nation's largest industrial concerns, with sales that should top $3 billion this year. Like many another dutiful son, the younger Rockwell, 59, is trying to live up to Dad's expectations by marrying well. Last week he announced a deal to acquire Admiral Corp., a major producer of television sets and other appliances. It was his third strategic merger...
...Secretary is astonished to watch the President develop into a cryptofascist who plans to undermine the legislative arm of the Government and suspend elections−"just this once." The Secretary joins the Vice President (Willard Waterman), the President's spiritual counsel−the Rev. Jimmy Williams (Joseph Sirola)−and other advisers in a plot to remove the Chief Executive by literally blasting him out of office...