Word: willard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...senior Don Nixon is now vice president for "industry and community relations" for the Marriott Corp., the motel and restaurant chain headed by J. Willard Marriott, a major contributor to Republican causes and a presidential friend who needs no influence to get into the White House. But despite this job in a safe haven, the rumors persist in Washington and California, as they have for years, that Don Nixon is often on the verge of somehow getting tangled up in some kind of deal that could cause grief for his brother...
Giovanni Agnelli, Fiat; Giuseppe Bertola, Brown, Boveri & Co.; Count Rene Paul Boel, Solvay et Cie.; Willard C. Butcher, Chase Manhattan Corp.; Louis Camu, Banque de Bruxelles; Alain Chevalier, Moet-Hennessy; Dr. F. Wilhelm Christians, Deutsche Bank; Fernand Josef Collin, Kredietbank, N.V.; Dr. Paul Dax, Siemens; Sir Eric Drake, British Petroleum; Baron Edouard-Jean Empain, Electrorail; Nils Foss, F.L. Smidth & Co.; Pehr G. Gyllenhammar, Volvo; Alfred H. Heineken, Heineken, N.V.; Belton K. Johnson, King Ranch; Dr. Konrad...
...into other minor flak. The President has been mildly criticized for selecting the Philadelphia Orchestra over the city's own National Symphony Orchestra, which has performed at past Inaugurations. Local radio and television stations have balked at providing free commercials to promote the sale of Inaugural medals. J. Willard Marriott, chairman of the Inaugural Committee and a hotelman himself, has irritated local hotel operators, who had hoped to reap a big profit from the Inauguration, by not scheduling more events in their establishments...
...only six days, both ending soon after Mayor Richard Daley intervened. The agreements made the teachers among the nation's highest-paid, with a salary range of $9,570 to $17,000. Many Chicagoans thought that Daley might do it again. Complained Metro High School Junior Jeff Willard: "We're political footballs, waiting for the mayor to come in, beat his chest and solve everything...
...decision time neared, 19 California Nobel prizewinners (including Willard F. Libby, Glenn T. Seaborg, Harold C. Urey and Linus Pauling) wrote the board in protest. In the letter, drafted by Arthur Kornberg, professor of biochemistry at Stanford's School of Medicine, the laureates said that the concessions were unacceptable...