Word: alexandra
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Alexandra Morehouse...
...Carter Administration's effort to ease the nation into a short and shallow business downturn in order to slow inflation increasingly resembles the attempts in 1916 by Russian noblemen to kill Rasputin: they fed Tsarina Alexandra's mystic poisoned teacakes and wine, then shot him three times, and finally had to drown him in St. Petersburg's icy Neva River. Despite record-high interest rates, the long awaited recession still refuses to materialize definitively...
...Yale, 14-10 Brown 31-7 3-3, .500 11-7, .611 LAURA SCHANBERG Harv., 10-7 Pton, 24-7 Yale, 14-10 Brown, 31-14 3-3, .500 10-8, .555 JIM HERSHBERG Staff Writer Cor, 19-14 Pton, 21-3 Yale, 21-14 Brown, 25-13 ALEXANDRA KORRY Guest Selector Harv, 17-10 Col, 21-17 Yale, 17-9 Brown, 24-17 Crimson managing editor
...program of theater and seminar is the first event of this year sponsored by "Side by Side" council for the performing arts. The one-year-old organization brings top level performers to Harvard and offers casting help in professional films, Danielle Alexandra '79-4, president of "Side by Side," said Sunday...
...DIED. Alexandra Tolstoy, 95, last surviving daughter of Russian Author Leo Tolstoy; in Valley Cottage, N.Y. The eleventh of Tolstoy's twelve children and a favorite of his, "Sasha" became her father's secretary at 17 and executor of his will in 1910. She never married because, she said, "I didn't want to exchange my father for someone else." After working as a nurse on the front lines of World War I, she became active in anti-Bolshevik intellectual circles, and was arrested five times and jailed for a year. In 1931 she immigrated...