Word: elizabeth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...then he told the jury that he had learned from "confidential sources" that three of the prosecution's witnesses, including Elko, had "stolen" $176,000 from Flood. "Cash felt that the other three were guiltier than Flood and that Flood had been taken advantage of," says Juror Elizabeth Vegos, 29. Cash also stated that he did not want to convict Flood because of the Congressman's age, 74. The evidence against Flood was still overwhelming, other jurors argued. But, says Vegos, "it was just impossible to talk with the man." Repeatedly, the vote came out the same...
...There are two basic premises of the Committee on Women's Studies--one is that Harvard is a unique institution that is planning for years to come, and the other is that at Harvard there is an unusual amount of academic freedom allowed professor," Elizabeth P. Tillinghast '79, student representative to the Women's Studies Committee, said yesterday...
...DIED. Elizabeth Hadley Mowrer, 87, the first of Ernest Hemingway's four wives; in Lakeland, Fla. Mowrer (nee Richardson) and Hemingway were married in 1921. Five years later, he divorced her to marry Fashion Writer Pauline Pfeiffer. Remorseful, the novelist dedicated The Sun Also Rises to "Hadley," assigned her its royalties, and wrote fondly of her and their one child "Bumby" in his memoirs, A Moveable Feast. In 1933 Hadley married Paul Scott Mowrer, a Pulitzer-prize-winning foreign correspondent and later editor of the Chicago Daily News...
Sophomore Cathy Rice, after being nosed out in the 60-yard dash, proceeded to crush her four opponents in the long jump. She skipped 17'4 1/4 ", defeating second-place Elizabeth Freeze of B.U. who could manage only...
Garry Trudeau, cartoonist, describing Elizabeth Taylor in his comic strip Doonesbury: "A tad overweight, but with violet eyes...