Word: winn
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Corporate executives see nothing sinister about the PACs' spending. Says Glen Woodard, vice president of Winn-Dixie Stores, Inc., a large Southern supermarket chain: "It's just as much a civic responsibility as helping the Heart Fund." This year Winn-Dixie gave $120,000 to 70 candidates, most in districts where the company has retail outlets...
...hangover continued into the second half, however, and the score continued at 7-0 for Yale, it was time for a quick sobering up. Kubacki, in the final leg of a record-breaking autumn, obviously agreed. He quickly conducted a 66-yd. voyage in the third period that Tommy Winn punctuated by rushing the last two yards...
...University, it's well-nigh impossible to find out what they do on the outside. There is no record, public or private, of Harvard professors' outside jobs. The Business School, whose professors are encouraged to work in the corporate world, does require that they report outside work. Dean Winn Currie, assistant dean for educational affairs, said the dean of the Business School each fall sends a memo to all professors reminding them to let him know about their "outside activities." This information isn't intended to prevent conflicts of interest, Currie added, as much as to coordinate activities among professors...
Murder Ink: The Mystery Reader's Companion. "Perpetrated" by Dilys Winn (Workman Publishing; 522 pages; $14.95 hardcover, $7.95 paper). For devotees of mysteries, thrillers and spy stories, this is the unputdownable reference work and ultimate argument settler. How many of those "little gray cells" did Hercule Poirot have? (One trillion.) Nero Wolfe's actual weight? (One-seventh of a ton.) Which British poet laureate and which U.S. President wrote murder stories? (C. Day Lewis and Abraham Lincoln.) With 150 contributions about crime writers, cops, critics, scientists, ex-spies, a stoolie, a butler who didn...
Other testimony revealed, in at least one instance, exactly where in the Capitol Kim was headed. Nan Elder, an aide to Kansas Republican Representative Larry Winn Jr., recalled that in 1972 a Korean had dropped an envelope off in her boss's office and that she opened it, at Winn's request, to find "more money than I've ever seen in my life." She tracked the man down at another Congressman's office, and he returned to pick up the rejected gift. Elder has identified the Korean from a selection of 14 pictures...