Word: duked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Briggs Athletic Center has been pretty cavernous most of this year. Even against national power Duke, the cagers only drew 2750 fans to occupy 3000 seats and the contest was a lot more interesting than Lipsey and Steiner or the average installment of "Dallas...
...private committees usually raise funds for the construction and the Federal Government takes care of maintenance, potential host campuses and communities have rejected the libraries on all sorts of grounds. Cambridge, Mass., effectively blocked a Kennedy library at Harvard because the city feared too much traffic. After heated debate, Duke University in North Carolina decided it did not want to erect a memorial to its law school alumnus Richard Nixon (the library is being built in San Clemente, Calif.). Nowhere have battle lines been more sharply drawn than at California's Stanford University, where after months of controversy...
DIED. Henry Hugh Arthur FitzRoy Somerset, 83, tenth Duke of Beaufort and, from 1936 to 1978, Master of the Horse, third-ranking post in the royal household; after a heart attack; in Badminton, England. The Duke followed his pack of hounds for more than 70 years and once estimated that he had spent 4,000 days in the saddle pursuing foxes. He defended his passion by saying, "Hunting is the only thing that draws this country together-apart from...
...educational researchers decided to take action. Under the auspices of John Hopkins psychologist, started up the Center for Talented Youth (CTY), an organization aimed at identifying mathematically gifted students. Since then, Duke, Northwestern. Arizona State, and the University of Denver have organized talent searches modeled after the CTY experiment to identify precocious, intelligent youngsters and develop their untapped academic potential...
...father and a mother who was part Irish, part black, freckle-faced Bricktop began her career in Harlem, then moved to Paris. Cole Porter wrote Miss Otis Regrets for her. John Steinbeck sent a taxiful of roses to apologize for getting drunk in her place. Hemingway, Fitzgerald and the Duke of Windsor were regular visitors to her ultrachic Place Pigalle boite. In the '40s and '50s she ran clubs in Mexico City and Rome, then quit in 1961, saying, "I'm tired, honey, tired of staying up till dawn every...