Word: duking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...name. In her recollections, which were republished four years ago and became a best seller after a PBS documentary last year on her life, she left out her volcanic love affairs, which seem to have numbered in the dozens and included alliances with such notable gents as Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, and Conductor Leopold Stokowski...
...students who turned out for last weekend's meeting with two of the overseers elected last June on the Alumni Against Apartheid slate--Duke University Professor Peter Wood '64 and Consuela Washington--focussed their remarks almost exclusively on divestiture. While that issue is a pressing one, its tendency to eclipse all others doesn't do much to open the University...
First-term overseers Peter H. Wood '64, a Duke University professor, and Consuela M. Washington, counsel to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, also said at the open forum that the Board should pay increased attention to student concerns...
...demonstrators, who included hospital trustees, doctors, nurses, administrators and volunteers carried signs which read, "CAPS= Catastrophe for underfinanced hospitals," "Duke Plan Hurts Quality Care at Hospitals," and "Governor's bill is bad medicine...
Dole put her husband's career ahead of her own once before, when she resigned as a member of the Federal Trade Commission to help his ill-fated 1980 presidential campaign. Until then the former Duke University student- council president and campus Queen of the May from Salisbury, N.C., had concentrated single-mindedly on her work. She started in politics as a "greeter" on Lyndon Johnson's 1960 vice-presidential whistle-stop tour, where she became enamored of Washington. She eventually started working there, quickly racking up high-ranking posts in Administrations of both parties. Her soft, unthreatening style...