Word: aprils
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...performs surgery in the middle of the night. "I complain about my work but if I didn't do it, I'd go to seed," he says. So devoted is Herriot to his profession that he is putting off starting his latest book until the end of April. Shrugs Dr. Jim: "We're lambing...
...April 1967, Ali had exhausted all of his appeals. At the Houston Induction Center, he refused orders to step forward to join the Army. Within minutes the New York State Athletic Commission rescinded his boxing license; it took the World Boxing Association four hours to do its patriotic duty and take away his title. The State Department confiscated his passport so that he could not travel to nations willing to sanction his fighting. For his stand, Ali was convicted of draft evasion and given a five-year prison sentence. He started the lengthy process of appeal, and discovered that...
Mosley has, among other things, assembled a wonderful collection of anecdotes about Allen and the international dacoity that he practiced. In April of 1917, while serving as a duty officer at the American legation in Berne, Allen had a date with a girl and therefore refused to see someone named V.I. Lenin. By next day, Lenin was on his way back to Russia, where he immediately ordered peace negotiations with the Germans to begin. Lenin, who admired Woodrow Wilson, had wanted to establish an American contact...
...seeing works of contemporary video artists, you can keep your eye open for the annual Video Show, a series sponsored by the Massachusetts College of Art in cooperation with the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and Harvard. The series is running right now and will continue through April 26, featuring such artists as John Godfrey, Jennifer Morris and Jerd Stern. The show will screen video tapes by anyone who brings them in that night. You can also keep your eye open for video showings at Center Screen, a public, non-profit film screening organization...
...Harvard School of Public Health will open a Division of Geriatrics designed to study policies and health programs for the elderly, in late March or early April, Dr. John Rowe, assistant professor of Medicine and a member of the new division's steering committee, said yesterday...