Word: gifted
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Plans for the Islamic Society's mosque in Cambridge have come to a stand-still, Islamic Society President Yusif Ibish 3G reported yesterday. A delay in the promised gift of Prince Sadruddin '55, son of the late Aga Khan, has forced the Society to relinquish its proposed site at Darton and Concords Sts., since the Prince held an option on the land...
Anonymous $50,000 Gift Received...
...hell with you and your money!" is what St. Peter said to Simon the magician when he offered to pay the Apostles for the gift of conferring the Holy Spirit. This, at least, is the rendering that a new translation of the New Testament gives to the words the King James version translates as "Thy Money perish with thee" (Acts 8:20). See RELIGION, Colloquial Scripture...
Kilb's troubles began last spring with a police investigation of reports that he had been accepting regular gift packages of coffee and other goodies from the company that operates West Germany's railway sleeping cars. Soon after the investigation started, the West German civil service decided that Kilb had been in Adenauer's office long enough, got him named director of security for the European Atomic Energy Community in Brussels. But the unforgiving police doggedly continued their investigation, discovered that more than a year ago Kilb acquired a Mercedes 190 SL sports car and, after...
...Robert Taft Memorial Tower on Capitol Hill. The tone proved just right, and the tower, built with almost $900,000 in private donations as a memorial to the late Republican Senator from Ohio, would be ready right on schedule for dedication-and presentation to Congress as a gift to the nation-next spring...