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...Willard's Hotel," Carl Sandburg once wrote, "more justly could be called the center of Washington than either the Capitol or the White House or the State Department." In August 1923, in fact, it did serve as an interim White House while Calvin Coolidge waited for Warren Harding's widow to vacate the executive mansion two blocks away. Lincoln lived at the Willard with his family before the 1861 inauguration. U. S. Grant would shamble over in the evening to smoke cigars and glower from the armchair set aside for him in a dimly lit corner...
Three planets were nominated as possible havens for such life. Nobel Chemistry Laureate Willard F. Libby speculated that oxygen detected on Venus by a Soviet space probe last October may well be the product of plant photosynthesis. Jupiter, said NASA Chemist Cyril Ponnamperuma, has an atmosphere similar to that which enveloped the earth during its first 100 million years; the swirling Jovian gases, he added, may already have combined into basic life-building molecules. But the strongest argument was made on behalf of Mars. Despite its freezing temperatures and apparent lack of oxygen, explained NASA Microbiologist Harold P. Klein, life...
...urging stockholders to reject Loew's bid, Commercial Credit argued that the theater-and-hotel operator, besides being a far smaller company, was in fields incompatible with its own. By contrast, said Commercial Credit Chairman L. S. Willard Jr., a merger with Control Data would be a "natural fit." As evidence, he pointed to his company's own budding involvement in computer operations. Already well diversified, with subsidiaries in insurance and manufacturing lines (printing presses, bearings, meat packing), Commercial Credit last January set up a data-processing operation in a joint venture with Radio Corp. of America...
...July 1967, Ray took the name of Warehouse Supervisor Eric St. Vincent Gait, 54, whose signature he had apparently misread as Eric Starvo Gait. As does Ray, Gait has scars on his forehead and right palm and could pass for 40, Ray's age. John Willard, 42, the name used by the man who rented the room in Memphis 13 paces away from the bathroom where King's assassin hid, is an insurance adjuster who is shorter and slighter than Ray's 5-ft. 9-in., 175-lb. frame, but looks not unlike him. Paul Bridgman...
...Willard Wirtz received his A.B. from Beloit College in 1933 and his Harvard Law degree in 1937. During World War II, he served on the War Labor Board, and was chairman of the Wage Stabilization Board in 1946. In 1961, President Kennedy appointed him Undersecretary of Labor and in 1962, when Secretary Arthur Goldberg resigned, Kennedy promoted Wirtz to the Cabinet...