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...first time, Harvard endorses three women applicants for the Rhodes Scholarship, an award considered to be restricted to male students...
...Vice President Gerald R. Ford accepts a Man of the Year award from the Young Republicans at the Harvard Club of Boston. Several hundred demonstrators rally in the Yard and later surround the building, chanting "Impeach Nixon, dump Ford...
...work has also focused on the physics of measuring time. His discovery of the physics behind the atomic clock, an extremely precise time measurement system, won him the Nobel Prize in physics and half of the $469,000 monetary award he shared with two other scientists...
...chosen to live in London with her husband, director Pat O'Connor, raising their two sons. She had thought she could maintain her formerly bustling career, which included an Academy Award-nominated role in Martin Scorsese's The Color of Money. But "if you're not available in the U.S., you're just not seen," she says. And, besides, "I've never been a person to make sure I'm seen." She worked intermittently, of course, but became increasingly aware that "the phone hasn't rung and that you're not being offered things, and when...
...threw him into "a pretty horrible depression," he told a psychotherapist about what he called his "other voice." She replied that both voices came from the same person. Within days he realized his true identity as a singer; just five years later, he won the coveted Richard Tucker Award, given to highly promising young opera singers (Renee Fleming is a laureate), and made a spectacular New York City Opera debut in Handel's Xerxes...