Word: dikes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This foreign aid budget is not final yet, but Congress is working on it now. The Senate has passed an authorization--which Nixon will be happy to use--but not an appropriation. Senators and congressmen--if not the dike bomber himself--are likely to listen to letters and telegrams from their constituents, especially about the most blatantly reprehensible forms of aid to Thieu. For example, Sen. Edward Brooke (R -Mass.) often votes for aid to Thieu, but Brooke's office says he will support an amendment--now in committee--to prohibit aid to Thieu's prisons...
...Benda said that some people who had low I.Q.s made enormous contributions to society. I do not doubt it. The little Dutch boy who put his finger in the dike may not have been exceptionally bright, though he may well have been exceptionally brave. While perhaps interesting, such unusual cases are beside my point. My theory calls only for a substantial correlation between I.Q. and status, for which the evidence is overwhelming...
...presently on the committee searching for new tenured faculty for the Afro Department. Rosovsky was to have chaired the committee, which was appointed before the new Dean took office, but Robert J. Kiely, associate dean for Undergraduate Education, replaced him as nominal leader of the committee. Kenneth O. Dike, professor of History, and Guinier are the other members of the committee...
...times as many students came to my house as to an equivalent professor living in Belmont," said Kenneth O. Dike, professor of History, a former tenant of 138 Irving...
...sore-legged horses back to good form. After training such winners as Quill, the champion two-year-old filly of 1958, and Amberoid, winner of the 1966 Belmont Stakes, he joined A.B. ("Bull") Hancock's Claiborne Farm. On one memorable afternoon in 1969, he saddled Claiborne's Dike to win the Wood Memorial while another of his entries, Jay Ray, was winning the California Derby. Lucien succeeded his son Roger as trainer of Meadow Stable in 1971 when the younger Laurin resigned to join the Ogden Phipps stable...