Word: gifted
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Back home in Cumberland, Maine's cigar-chomping ex-Republican Governor Horace Hildreth, now U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan, amiably tried to bulldoze a baby elephant, flown to the U.S. as a gift from some of Hildreth's Pakistani admirers. If Amateur Mahout Hildreth can polish up by August, his pet may accompany him then to the G.O.P. National Convention in San Francisco as an alternate to an alternate delegate...
...McCarthy's career as wild-swinging slayer of subversive dragons came to an end. Because of insufficient evidence, the Government announced that it was dropping the prosecution of Harvard Physicist Wendell Furry, charged with contempt for refusing to answer the Senator's questions. ¶Gift of the week: from John D. Rockefeller Jr., $1,000,000 to Dartmouth College for Dartmouth's new social and creative arts center (TIME, Feb. 20). ¶Resignation of the week: Samuel Brownell, brother of U.S. Attorney General Herbert Brownell Jr., as U.S. Commissioner of Education. Termed a "valued adviser" by President...
Earlier in the program, Monte M. Lemann '03, representing the Law School Class of 1906, presented Dean Griswold of the School with $53,879, the first such gift to the School from a 50th reunion class. Griswold also announced that as of yesterday, the School had received $387,306 for its Fund from 5828 donors...
...gift represents approximately one-half the construction cost of the new building, which is needed to help alleviated Radcliffe's acute housing problem. The balance of the total amount remains to be raised...
...dawned, Mallinckrodt Laboratory and New Lecture Hall were approaching completion. An anonymous gift of $100,000 from an "alumnus aquaticus" for a swimming pool started the administration thinking about an I.A.B. Maurice Ravel conducted at Sanders, Professor Charles T. Copeland, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, retired, and the Hasty Pudding ambitiously formulated plans for a nation-wide tour of its latest opus: "Not Now--Later...