Word: sawyer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...woodburning. Huge chippers that swallow entire trees are used for harvesting; since they leave no small limbs to rot and replenish the forest, the practice can amount to mining the thin topsoil. "In 50 years," says one observer, "New England could look like Lebanon." President Nick Muller of Colby-Sawyer College in New London, N.H., has another sort of woodburning in mind. He wants to build a $1.75 million central heating plant fueled by sawdust from nearby sawmills. Sawdust is cheap, burns cleanly and has much heating power. Muller, a historian, is thankful that he studied engineering for a time...
DIED. John Cromwell, 91, stage and screen actor, director and producer for more than 70 years; of a blood clot in the lung; in Santa Barbara, Calif. Lured from Broadway to Hollywood in 1928, he directed Tom Sawyer, Of Human Bondage and Algiers. A founder of the Screen Directors' Guild, Cromwell was hounded out of Hollywood in the early '50s for his pro-labor leanings. Last year he reappeared on the screen in Robert Altman's A Wedding...
JAMES MacGREGOR BURNS, historian (Williams College): Very few widely known living Americans meet my rather exacting criteria of leaders who transform. John Sawyer was such a leader as president of Williams College during the 1960s, when he led the college in achieving badly needed social and educational reforms. Nationally, Cesar Chavez may be such a leader today...
...there was enough evidence in both the King and Kennedy cases to warrant the Justice Department's continuing the investigation, although nothing was found to overturn the basic conclusion of the Warren Commission 15 years ago: that Oswald had acted alone. Discussing the House report, Michigan Congressman Harold Sawyer, a dissenting member of the committee, called it "supposition upon supposition upon supposition." A former prosecutor, Sawyer was asked what he would have done in his old job if someone had laid the report in his lap. Said he: "I'd have put it in the circular file. There...
Perhaps he is most captivating when he roams about the stage as a musical narrator recounting Tom Sawyer's sly tac tics in luring passing boys into whitewashing Aunt Polly's fence...