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...American capitalists wanted him too. In 1930, when he did his enormous fresco cycle of Mexican history in the Palacio de Cortes at Cuernavaca, a work that made no bones about his Communist sympathies, his $12,000 fee was paid by Dwight W. Morrow, the U.S. Ambassador to Mexico. In 1931 Abby Aldrich Rockefeller bought Rivera's sketchbook of the 1928 May Day parade in Moscow...
...Burbank Professor of Political Economy Dwight H. Perkins, who heads that committee, says he doesn't know anything about an investigation, adding that it would not be appropriate for his committee to conduct a study. "The standing committee on Middle Eastern studies' role is not to run the Center. Its role is basically what is sometimes called gatekeeping...
...third, when shortstop Alfredo Griffin made a pair of throwing errors, and added three runs in the fourth to take a 4-0 lead. In the fourth, Gedman singled with one out and Marty Barrett walked. Steve Lyons and Ed Romero followed with RBI singles and Dwight Evans drove in a run with a groundout...
Boston Red Sox pitcher Roger Clemens set a major league record last night when he struck out 20 Seattle Mariners at Fenway Park in a nine-inning game. Boston won the contest, 3-1, on a three-run homer by Dwight Evans...
...Soviet appeal for "practical results," Dobrynin recalled his own extensive experience in summitry. The meeting of Dwight Eisenhower and Nikita Khrushchev in the U.S. in 1959, as well as the subsequent summit talks between Khrushchev and John Kennedy in Vienna, were "disastrous," said Dobrynin, because both sessions had been inadequately prepared. By contrast, he continued, the summit meetings during the '70s, involving Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter, had been essentially successful because they were well planned and the outcomes known in advance. Thus, according to a senior U.S. official, considerable time last week "was spent on making sure...