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Kissinger financed the program completely through grants from private foundations, and in 1967 several of those foundations appeared on the Times' list of CIA conduits. One of them, the Friends of the Middle East, had funneled $243,000 to the Harvard International Seminar. Kissinger panicked. Abigail Collins Fichter, Kissinger's administrative assistant in the 1960s, recalls in Ralph Blumenfeld's Henry Kissinger: The Private and Public Story, that Kissinger "was running around saying, 'Oh, my God, this is terrible. People are going to say I'm working...
...this year gave Radcliffe $300,000 over three years, one-third earmarked for Harvard faculty to do research at the Schlesinger Library or Radcliffe's Data Resource Center. The research must contribute to a new course in women's studies or add material about women to an existing course. Abigail J. Stewart, acting director of Radcliffe's Data Resource and Research Center, says Harvard faculty proposals for Mellon money have come in rather slowly--two applications for the fall deadline and eight for the spring. She points out that response to a new program is often tepid, but some Faculty...
...Experts attribute the latest decrease to the lowering of the voting age to 18. Because young people move frequently, they often fail to register for the relatively unexciting congressional elections. Aside from this indifference, some nonvoters argue that the major parties often offer no choice. Columnist Abigail McCarthy, who is separated from Eugene, said last week: "Voting has become the finale in an empty ritual, an act of piety...
...York News last May able to grab Peanuts away from the New York Post, where it had appeared for a decade. Syndicates raid each other's rosters as well. In one of the most spectacular snatches in syndicate annals, the Chicago Tribune-New York News in 1966 spirited Abigail Van Buren ("Dear Abby") away from her longtime home at the McNaught Syndicate, reportedly by promising her far more than the standard fifty-fifty syndicate split on gross revenues...
...This is Abigail Halperin's second summer at Harvard. "I first came here the summer before my freshman year, to take Chem S-1," she said yesterday. "I'd taken time off after high school and I sort of wanted to get back into the academic consciousness...