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...French Government will bestow its highest civilian honor -- the Legion d'Honneur -- on Laurence W. Wylie, Dillon Professor of the Civilization of France Emeritus in recognition of his study of French culture...
...general sense, parity means balance and equality; in Ivy Title jargon, it means a toss-up. There is no consensus on championship squad, although many tentatively bestow the early-season jinx on Princeton...
Breuer received many of the highest honors the profession can bestow in his half-century-long career, including the gold medal of the American Institute of Architects in 1978. In May the G.F.I. Knoll International Corporation sponsored a conference in his honor...
...Soviet Union has been more cautious than the U.S. in handing out nuclear equipment, but has caused plenty of mischief by whipping up those who seek that equipment. Both the Soviets and Americans have continued to sell arms promiscuously; not one week after Iraq, the U.S. decided to bestow $2 billion worth of arms on Pakistan, from which the U.S. cut off supplies in 1979 because of its nuclear stirrings. (There is a fascinating theory abroad that a superabundance of conventional weapons quashes an appetite for nuclear weapons; it is not based in human nature.) Both the Soviets and Americans...
...costume drama, for the movie industry's spring ritual of self-congratulation. In the packed Los Angeles Music Center they will hear a former B-movie swain and Screen Actors Guild president named Ronald Reagan deliver an address on the theme "Film Is Forever." They will bestow Academy Awards on their most envied colleagues. They will snicker as professional actors flub a three-line introductory speech. For the benefit of 80 million TV-watching Americans, the movie people will put on a spectacle that combines the solemnity of graduation day at West Point with the giddy naivete...