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...Jack Grimm, a restless Texas oil millionaire who previously had searched for quarries less tangible than the Titanic: Noah's Ark, Bigfoot and the Loch Ness monster. Between 1980 and 1983 he lavished $2 million on three elaborate Titanic expeditions, masterminded by Columbia University Marine Geologist William Ryan and Fred Spiess of the Scripps Oceanographic Institute in La Jolla, Calif. Using prototypes of the Knorr- Suroit sonar technology and submersible cameras, Ryan and Spiess mapped large swatches of ocean floor and took intriguing images of something that Grimm, at least, is convinced resembled the propeller of a ship. Computer enhancement...
...recently as 1981, only outsiders (and Johnny Carson) were cracking jokes about NBC. An air of frantic desperation hung over the place as then Chairman Fred Silverman threw onto his schedule, and then pulled off, one expensive flop after another. To the savviest TV producers, "it was as if NBC didn't exist," recalls Gary David Goldberg (Family Ties). "We didn't go there with an idea, because we knew it would be crucified." Silverman, who had earned a reputation as a programming wunderkind at CBS and then ABC earlier in the '70s, was also scalded by the boycott...
...Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid L. Fred Jewett '57 was named to dean of Harvard College. He replaced John...
Dean of Admissions and Financial Aids L. Fred Jewett '57 was selected as the new dean of Harvard College, replacing John B. Fox Jr. '59. Fox, in turn, was named administrative dean of the GSAS. Sally F. Moore, an anthropology professor and Master of Dunster House, was selected as new dean of GSAS...
...challengers, Regan has limited the power of the few veteran hands he has recruited to the White House, including Political Adviser Ed Rollins and Legislative Strategist Max Friedersdorf. Both plan to leave before the end of the year. With Budget Director David Stockman already gone and White House Counsel Fred Fielding expected to depart, the quality of advice reaching the President is slipping...