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Harvard consistently urges Congress to continue government grants for university research projects. Organizations such as the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, and the National Endowment for the Humanities traditionally award many research grants to Harvard. Harvard works both through these organizations and Congressional committees responsible for authorization of grants and appropriation of federal money. Walter Dodd of the National Science Foundation says the foundation itself is prohibited from lobbying Congress for support of the grants it approves. Harvard faculty members, he says, play an important role by testifying at Congressional committees. A spokesman for the National Endowment...
Cambridge is abuzz with the rumor that President Bok will finally give Rodney Dangerfield the respect he insists he deserves, and award the saloon-keeper-Class Day speaker an honorary Doctor of Comedy degree at Thursday's Commencement exercises...
There was former President Gerald Ford in Manhattan, picking up an honorary doctor of laws degree from New York Law School and a humanitarian award from the American Diabetes Association-and, between laurels, lambasting his successor. The Carter Administration's economic policy is "inadequate and misdirected," Ford told a news conference, and called for further cuts in federal spending to slow inflation...
...collection of 30 songs Waller composed or helped to make famous. To put it mildly, Ain't Misbehavin ' is behaving wildly. Three days after it opened May 9, it was sold out through June; now the house is booked into September. And besides picking up five Tony Award nominations, the show won the New York Drama Critics Award as the year's best musical, against such high-powered competition as Liza Minnelli's The Act and Bob Fosse's Dancin...
...other presentations, attack Dave Wigglesworth picked up the Herman Hammerman "Unsung Hero" award, while husky crease ace Mac DeCamp was named the most improved player...