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...assistant curatorship at Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History. Half a century and many field trips later, the anthropologist is still working for the museum. To commemorate her 50th anniversary on staff, which happened to coincide with her 75th birthday, the museum established a fund to endow a chair in her name and to reorganize its anthropology collection. Mead plans to help raise the target of $5 million, at least when she can spare the time. She is working on a new book.Letters from the Field, and is still traveling. Contemplating a trip to Bali in the spring...
There is, I believe, a political axiom that emanates from this spiritual tie. The heritage of history we share and the tradition of government and law to which this heritage gave birth inexorably endow our two nations with the same fundamental aspirations for ourselves and for the world. America and Israel may occasionally disagree, sometimes sharply, but I cannot conceive of a time when we shall ever fall...
...Tatti, and despite a $2.5 million grant from the Mellon Foundation ($1.5 million of which is a challenge grant which Harvard must match) the Italian inflation rate has galloped ahead at such a rate that the University needs a total of $4 million if it is ever to sufficiently endow the villa as a study center...
...Winkle said the chapter cannot afford to endow a permanent scholarship, but hopes to renew it annually...
...library corporation gave Harvard $10 million to endow the Kennedy Institute of Politics, and Burke said yesterday the corporation "has a desire" to see the institute and the government school located at the Bennett St. site as it had originally planned...