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...those who pledged donations were kindergarten classes in Florida and Maine, two California songwriters and a bank in Hawaii. (The McAuliffe family is already the beneficiary of a $1 million life insurance policy, donated before the accident by a Washington, insurance brokerage company.) The National Education Association began to collect for a program that will seek to honor McAuliffe by financing "pioneering" projects by teachers as well as scholarships to encourage gifted people to enter the profession. And school children around the country began sending nickels and dimes to NASA to help replace the shuttle, which will cost an estimated...
Prizes--including trips for two to Bermuda and New York, a mink shawl, and a compact disc player--will be raffled off or given to the dancers who collect the most money. All participants will also receive a prize when they turn in their pledges...
Field is scheduled to collect her prize at the Pudding's Holyoke St. headquarters after leading a parade through Harvard Square on February 11. Stallone will receive his award onstage February 18 before the premiere performance of the acting troupe's musical comedy, "Between the Sheiks...
SOME ACTIVISTS have conducted a drive to collect the signatures of students who pledge not to fight a war against Nicaragua. This drive has had the beneficial effect of drawing attention to the problems of U.S. foreign policy in that region. America should not go to war in that region because other options still exist besides the ultimate step of war. But more important, it is the U.S. which appears to be attempting to provoke war. Because options to war still exist and because the United States is the aggressor, fighting in that region could not be justified...
Together, the teams were 19-for-62 in the first half, a dismal shooting effort that allowed Harvard to collect 28 rebounds in the half--only five fewer than the Crimson had been averaging per game...