Word: woodward
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Died. Robert Woodward Hathaway, 67, American-born Seigneur of Sark, 2-sq.-mile, semifeudal English Channel island; of thrombosis; in Sark. Hathaway acquired his title when he married the Dame de Sark, Mrs. Sibyl Collings Beaumont, in 1929, worked with her to keep the island and its 542 inhabitants just as they had been when Sark was created as a seigneury by Queen Elizabeth in 1565. They perpetuated the island's ban on automobiles, female dogs and homing pigeons, discouraged movies and newspapers, levied tithes of grain, sheep and wool...
...nation's top science awards will go to Robert B. Woodward, Morris Loeb Professor of Chemistry. A leader in the synthesis of quinine and cortisone, Woodward was selected for his "many outstanding contributions to organic chemistry...
...Foreign Service Careerman Robert F. Woodward was appointed U.S. Ambassador to Costa Rica. Woodward's predecessor, Robert C. Hill, was named Ambassador to El Salvador, replacing Michael J. McDermott, recently resigned...
...Manhattan, antenna-mustached "Nuclear Mystic" Salvador Dali, who is as artless about his publicity as he is about his surrealist painting, made his way back to the front pages by slapping a $7,000 suit on one of his clients. The client: Ann Eden Crowell Woodward, who had commissioned a Dali portrait of herself, and then declined to pay when it was completed. Snapped husband William Woodward Jr., who recently inherited the Belair racing stable of his banker-sportsman father: "It is a heck of an unpleasant picture, [depicting Ann] sort of against a rock with shells around . . . sort...
...three honored are Andrew M. Gleason, associate professor of Mathematics; Julian S. Schwinger, professor of Physics; and Robert B. Woodward, Morris Loeb Professor of Chemistry...