Word: establish
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Edwin H. Land '30, founder of the Polaroid Corporation and a major contributor to Harvard's funds for education in the sciences, Wednesday said he plans to establish a "center for scientific endeavor" in Cambridge...
...Israelis too appeared to welcome the diplomatic pause. Government officials spoke of a plan to establish 20 more Jewish settlements in the West Bank over the next four years, but when members of Gush Emunim, the fanatical religious organization, tried to found two illegal settlements on the hills above Jerusalem last week, soldiers quickly evicted them. Many officials grumbled over a statement by Egypt's Acting Foreign Minister Boutros Ghali that "a political confrontation will occur during negotiations to define the powers of a Palestinian regime." Though this has been implicit in the Egyptian position all along, Israeli officials...
...first, the 17 million citizens of Taiwan responded with restraint to the stunning news of Washington's decision to sever diplomatic relations with Taipei and establish full ties with Peking. But with the approach of Jan. 1, the date that U.S. recognition of the People's Republic would be formally declared, reserve gave way to rage. Last week those feelings exploded in an outbreak of violence...
...Harvard Business School reveals that unnamed sources have donated $1 million to establish the Watergate Chair of Creative Banking and that Maurice C. Stans will fill the chair for the next academic year. The source of the donation is traced to a small general store near San Diego...
...cashiers check for $2 million is deposited in the Yard by a luminous, cigar-shaped object that swallows four University policemen before taking off from the top of Grays Hall. Accompanying the check is a note asking the Law School to establish a Remulac Library of Extra-Terrestrial Studies. Dean Albert M. Sacks announces that the Law School will accept the donation, "for fear of offending future donors, and their android assistants." President Bok, quivering noticeably, says, "Problem? What problem? No, no problem at all around here. What makes you think we've got a problem...