Word: benefited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Roaring into Monticello, N.Y., in his custom-made lavender Bentley for a benefit basketball game, Wilt ("the Stilt") Chamberlain, 29, announced that he had brooded it over and would not, after all, accept $250,000 from boxing promoters to become the world's highest pug (7 ft. 1% in.). Instead, he will accept a $55,000 annual raise, to $125,000, to remain the world's highest-salaried basketball player. After he signed his new three-year contract with the Philadelphia 76ers, Wilt thought of a good friend and bitter rival, the 6-ft. 10-in. pillar...
...innocence, Moscow's Bolshoi Ballet accepted an invitation to add, at the end of its current English tour, a benefit performance for the Peace Foundation of cantankerous Pacifist Bertrand Russell, 93, campaigning for nuclear disarmament and U.S. withdrawal from Viet Nam. In glee, the foundation announced its catch. In wrath, the Foreign Office insisted that the benefit was off because "in pursuit of better Anglo-Soviet cultural relations the government cannot allow Soviet artists to be involved in internal politics in this country." In embarrassment, the Bolshoi protested that that was the last thing it wanted. And in righteous...
...formal benefit opening of George Balanchine's Don Quixote, Edie climbed to the highest balcony in Lincoln Center's New York State Theater to twist, while Andy and fellow onlookers toasted her in champagne from below. A week later they showed up at the exclusive dinner given by the old-guard Nine O'Clockers of New York, Andy dressed in his usual black, bespotted denim work pants and Edie in a black crepe evening gown with shoulder-length white gloves, topped with ostrich feathers...
...potential source, the Hudson River. Johnson reminisced privately that "from earliest memory" of his arid birthplace, he regarded water as the "determining factor in our happiness or sorrow." He had some plain-spoken hill-country advice for his visitors: cut down on waste. And in fact, Northeasterners may ultimately benefit from the drought if it teaches them some of the Westerner's reverence for water. One sign of change came at week's end when five states and the Federal Government reached an agreement to clean up polluted Lake Erie (see SCIENCE). Johnson's final exhortation...
...last year's $10,020. Apparently, after 16 years Miss Clapp reckoned that she had completed her job. Last week she announced that she will resign next July. "I am convinced," she said, "that Wellesley is at a point in time when it will benefit from fresh vision and new leadership." Characteristically, she then proceeded to instruct her faculty on how to elect a committee to help choose her successor, and even on what to do in case of a tie vote. Whereupon, without fuss or fluster, she skipped off to a secluded vacation. Few faculty members shared...