Word: williams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Radcliffe College President Mary I. Bunting is scheduled to appear in court this morning to answer a charge of disturbing the peace. The arrest of William Bunting '69 took place Wednesday night when Cambridge police say he interfered with their efforts to arrest a newsboy in an incident in Harvard Square...
...likely to inherit his single-handed control of the company, and more people are now likely to be making more decisions. Heading the list are Ahmanson's two nephews, William, 41, and Robert Ahmanson, 39, longtime aides who will have a strong say in running the trust. Others are Robert De Kriuf, 49, president of Ahmanson's holding company since 1956, and Home's president, Richard H. Deihl, 39, whom Ahmanson spotted as a comer soon after he joined the association as a loan agent...
...proposed merger would hold special advantages for Control Data. One of the fastest-growing computer concerns, it registered earnings during fiscal 1967 of $8.4 million on revenues of $245 million, and is running far ahead of that pace so far in 1968. President William C. Norris has had to scramble for the cash to keep the expansion going. Commercial Credit's resources should help Norris increase computer sales abroad, also provide the financing his company needs to strengthen its position in the competitive -and lucrative-leasing field...
...William Maitland is a 39-year-old London solicitor who has gazed into the broken mirror of his life and gleaned the terrifying knowledge that he is "irredeemably mediocre." With an irascible wit and a fanged tongue, he spews out tirades of paranoia. A self-pitying child of rage and fear, he drowns his panic in alcohol. He courts oblivion in lust-the bed is his womb and his coffin. He wakes with jittery remorse to smell death's bad breath at dawn. On the self-accusing charge of having made his existence an obscenity, this anti-hero sits...
...Both W. C. Fields and Chaplin made the dandified sissy a prime object of putdowns and pratfalls. But a serious, forthright approach to sexual inversion was slow to appear. When Hollywood first filmed Lillian Hellman's The Children's Hour in 1929, fear of censorship forced Director William Wyler to substitute an innocent boy-meets-girl plot for the original lesbian relationship. When Billy Wilder made The Lost Weekend in 1945, he deleted all the book's references to the hero's homosexual self-doubts. The screen adaptation of Crossfire (1947) transformed the victim from...