Word: dec
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...early 1970s students at Princeton forced their administration to refuse to honor alumnus Charles Engelhard. We must not permit Engelhard's wealth to legitimize exploitation in South Africa. Vote yes on question one. Please join concerned students at Mass Hall Wednesday, Dec 13 at 12:45 p.m. for a march to the Kennedy School. If we remain united the Library will be re-named...
...Muharram holiday is particularly significant to opponents of the Shah; it symbolizes the Shi'ites' struggle against an evil, corrupt leadership in the earliest years of Islam. The mourning, which culminates on Dec. 11, commemorates the death of the 7th century Imam Husain, a grandson of Muhammad who was beheaded by Sunni Muslims from Damascus intent on maintaining their rule over dissident Persians. Muharram is traditionally observed with huge processions through the streets, at which the faithful whip themselves with chains or draw blood with knives and swords in anguished enactments of Husain's suffering...
...York City, where Tut opens on Dec. 20, at the Metropolitan Museum, 900,000 tickets were snapped up in 5½ days in mid-September, and the line at one point stretched 20 blocks. At its U.S. debut in Washington, the collection drew 835,000 visitors, more than the entire population of the District of Columbia. It attracted an even bigger crowd in New Orleans (870,595), and was credited with bringing in $75 million in revenue. The record for the U.S. tour so far is held by Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History: 1,349,724 visitors...
...carry a large inventory too much of a risk. Says Leonard Lauder, president of Estée Lauder Inc., Revlon's toughest rival in the high-priced end of the cosmetics business: "The thing I predict with absolute certainty for this Christmas is that the people who wait until Dec. 24 to do their shopping will find the shelves bare...
...play. It's a play of the spirit," says Actor Eli Wallach of The Diary of Anne Frank. In an off-Broadway production opening Dec. 28, Wallach plays the father of the Jewish family that hides from the Nazis in an Amsterdam warehouse for 25 months during World War II. The mother is Anne Jackson, Wallach's real-life wife, and the Frank daughters are played by Wallachs as well. "You're comfortable with your own family, so it's easier," says Katherine, 20, who hopes for a career as a cafe chanteuse and plays Margot...