Word: gift
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Five years of wrangling with the taxman ended profitably for Negro Baritone Paul Robeson, ailing in a Moscow hospital. The Internal Revenue Service at last agreed with steadfast-Marxist Robeson that his 1953 Stalin Peace Prize of $25,000 was a gift rather than a payment for services, so he will not have to pay $9,655 in back income taxes after...
Visions and other mystical experiences are part of the regular spiritual diet of the 50,000-odd members of the Native American Church, thanks to what they consider a special gift from God: peyote (pronounced pay-oh-tee), a small cactus growing in the valley of the Rio Grande. The Indians of the Native American Church, 46 tribes in the West and Canada, cut off and dry the cactus tops, then eat the "buttons" in nightlong ceremonies to the accompaniment of sacred fire and chanting. A derivative called mescaline, subject of experiment by psychiatric researchers and mystical dabblers, including Aldous...
...requests within each state are slashed by a corresponding percentage. In Massachusetts, for example, colleges asked for over $2.3 million, whereas only $249,680 was available. Resulting grants thus were pared to about ten per cent of requests and ranged from Boston College's $54,472 to the $51 gift to North Adams State Teachers College...
...Agnes Eve, and Ode to Autumn, the collection contains two-thirds of the bulk of Keats' surviving manuscripts. About one-half of the collection was given to Harvard by Amy Lowell, along with many rare books from her own library; an addition, equal in size to the original gift was given later by Amory Houghton who occasionally adds new material...
...unspecified stipend accompanied Pipkin's Fellowship. One of five newly appointed Sloan Fellows from New England, he will use the gift to support work in the field of nuclear orientation. Since Sloan grants carry no specification as to the nature of research, Pipkin said he might use some of the funds for study in other areas...