Word: duking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Universities fear that they stand to pay the biggest price to accommodate the handicapped. They argue that with overhead up, endowments down and public money increasingly hard to come by, they can least afford the added costs. Duke University Business Manager James Henderson complains that federal guidelines are as vague as they are numerous: "Who can figure out what 'reasonable accommodations' and 'undue hardships' mean? We are at our wits' end in deciding what to do." Duke estimates it would cost $1 million to make every building on its hilly campus accessible. Says Frederick Ford...
...create changes of scene. The new Rigoletto (cost: close to $300,000, neither cheap nor extravagant) is built around a leaning tower that suggests not so much Pisa but Babel and, at times, the land of Hansel and Gretel. At the start it represents the palace of the Duke of Mantua. For the second scene it becomes the house where the jester Rigoletto has hidden, or so he thinks, his daughter Gilda from a menacing outside world. And so on. The tower is, alas, not a very arrest ing centerpiece, especially against Designer Tanya Moiseiwitsch...
Denis Healey, who warmly backed his appointment to the new post. Carver, 62, whose great-great-great-granduncle was the Duke of Wellington, became a brigadier general at 29; when he retired from a 41-year career in the military last year, he was the chief of Britain's defense staff...
...1934?Elwyn Simons, then at Yale, and his former student David Pilbeam became convinced that this creature too was an ancestor. They noted that his teeth were far closer to those of other hominids (manlike creatures) than to those of apes. Indeed, says Simons, 47, who now heads the Duke University Center for the Study of Primate Biology and History, "Ramapithecus is ideally structured to be an ancestor of hominids. If he isn't, we don't have anything else that...
Notre Dame and Penn State were among the suitors, and Paul recalls the trip to Duke where "it was like everything you hear about recruiting. You know, a hotel room, the offer of a girl for the weekend." But then the good looking irishman blushed and in the process reaffirmed his All-Americanism--"I turned her down...