Word: duked
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...Nixon's re-election effort was booting up, Nixon aides John Ehrlichman, Charles Colson and H.R. Haldeman asked Buchanan to launch a secret "plumbers" squad to investigate the President's enemies. But Buchanan spurned the offer, saying it was better to duke it out face to face than deliver a sucker punch. "I have yet to be shown what benefit this would do for the President--or for the rest of us, other than a psychological salve," Buchanan wrote in a July 8, 1971, memo now in the National Archives. After leaving the White House, Pat returned to the typewriter...
Worldwide fundamentalist trends have led to an upsurge in institutionalized religion, Duke University Professor of Religion Bruce B. Lawrence told an audience of about 60 students last night...
DIED. MERCER ELLINGTON, 76, musician and the son of jazz great Duke Ellington; of heart failure; in Copenhagen. Mercer led his father's orchestra after Duke's 1974 death and was music director of Sophisticated Ladies, the 1981 Broadway celebration of the elder Ellington's music...
...innovative recruiting by alumnae and alumni, undergraduate student recruiters and Admissions Office staff has also made a difference in recent years. Six years ago, we began "joint travel," in which we join other colleges in recruiting efforts around this country and abroad. Conducted in conjunction with MIT, Georgetown, Duke and Stanford, this program began by using spring travel for recruiting the next year's class. The format centers upon joint presentations to students and parents at an evening meeting, followed by a breakfast meeting the next morning with school guidance counselors. More than 600 people have attended some evening sessions...
...five days. Such trips are economical because of the shared expenses of function rooms, rental cars and mailing costs. In addition, a much larger number of people will come to a presentation made by five colleges than by one. We conducted six other such visits last spring with Duke, Georgetown and Penn, and we undertook 12 more during the fall...