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Keller said the protest organizers hoped to enlist summer school student to the divestment cause, and at the end of the rally's, she urged them to take the evening's message to their high school and college...

Author: By David S. Hilzenrath, | Title: Apartheid Rally Draws 150; A.N.C. Rep. Urges Divestment | 7/30/1985 | See Source »

First, the Committee recommended that the dean enlist experts from outside Harvard to review each department's dean program every six years...

Author: By David S. Hilzenrath, | Title: GSAS May Enter Era of Change | 7/30/1985 | See Source »

Some of these insights into the Walker family saga came to light on cable TV in an interview that Laura Walker Snyder, 25, gave to the Virginia-based Christian Broadcasting Network. In 1979, Laura said, she told her husband, Mark Snyder, 26, that her father had tried to enlist her as a spy while she was in the Army. After she and Mark separated in 1982, Mark kept their son Christopher, then 2, and, according to Laura, threatened to expose John Walker's espionage if she tried to win legal custody of the boy. "My husband was blackmailing me," Laura...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Spy's Unhappy Household | 7/1/1985 | See Source »

...trivia irresistible. (Items: Horatio Alger was unfit for service in the Union Army. The original title of Death of a Salesman was The Inside of His Head. Tarzan does not live in sin, he was married to Jane by her father, a minister. Poet Robert Lowell twice tried to enlist in the armed forces; both times he was rejected. By the time he was called up, Lowell had become a conscientious objector...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Publishing Rises in the West | 6/24/1985 | See Source »

Presumably encouraged by her mother, Laura also implicated her father. She told the FBI that he had tried to enlist her in the spy ring in 1979, which would have given the undercover operatives an entry into Army as well as Navy communications...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Very Serious Losses | 6/17/1985 | See Source »

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