Word: center
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...blind advertisement in the Denver Post read: "Sincere, conscientious person interested in the betterment of mankind call this number..." Out of curiosity I called, and the young woman who answered explained that she worked for an organization similar to the Peace Corps that operated out of a community center in Boulder. She asked me to come for an interview...
...center was located across from the University of Colorado in an old Chi Omega sorority house. I talked with a young man from Austria named Lorenz Würrer. He said that he belonged to a youth movement and asked me if I'd like to come to a weekend retreat to learn more about it. I really liked the atmosphere in the place. Little did I know that my mind had begun a journey from which it might never return...
...contradictions. He traveled widely, but feared flying. He was a confidant of the rich, and a lifelong miser. Early in his career, he typically operated out of hotel suites, carrying business documents along with him in string-tied boxes. When he decided to make Sutton Place his "liaison center" in 1959, he decorated it with old masters from his huge collection, which includes a museum in Malibu, Calif, containing works worth $200 million; but he also cut back the Sutton Place gardening staff and had a pay telephone installed for his visitors' use. Said Getty: "My friends will understand...
...most applicants are Americans who receive scholarships from their states to help pay the $3,000 annual fee for tuition, room and board. Congress contributes 90% of Gallaudet's operating costs as well as grants to operate model elementary and secondary schools for the deaf and a center that provides legal advice on request from the 14 million people in the U.S. who are deaf or have severely impaired hearing...
...alternate route from many other Harvard graduates. After travelling around for a few years after he graduated, Cross and four friends opened up a saloon in northern Vermont. "There are an amazing amount of crazy people here," Cross said last week from Kilgore's Trout Saloon in Montgomery Center, Vermont. "It's a small town--you know everybody." But Cross was not satisfied with his college education. "Education doesn't give you a whole lot to do, and the problems of the city bummed me out, so I came here. Things happen in the town. You create your own interests...