Word: gifts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ronald Reagan, who said he was not interested in a small part but that he was interested in playing one of the candidates for President. I then sent back word that I did not think Ronald Reagan would be credible as a national candidate. So much for my gift of prophecy...
...prescience the space age that was dawning. Me won the permanent allegiance of science-fictioneers in 1953 with Childhood End, a novel about the transformation of man after he encounters benign but grotesque visitors from outer space. In 1963, Profiles of the Future illustrated his growing confidence in his gift for technological prophecy. He predicted that man would contact intelligent extraterrestrials by 2030, create artificial life by 2060 and achieve immortality...
...largest single gift to the building fund drive so far, and brings the total of gifts and pledges to $2.8-million toward the project's estimated $6-million cost...
Theodore R. Sizer, Dean of the Graduate School of Education said that Gutman's gift had provided " a tremendous boost in out efforts to complete the campaign during the next twelve months." A recent challenge grant of $500,000 by the Kresge Foundation requires that the balance of the project's cost be raised by July...
...largest in a series of gifts to the University by Gutman over the past two decades. A gift in support of the work of Prof. Donald W. Oliver of the Faculty of Education in the 1950's led to the later establishment of Project Social Studies, which has produced a series of pamphlets used to teach the analysis of public controversy in hundreds of public school systems in the United States. A more recent gift by Gutman has enabled Oliver to undertake a new project involving the study of communication processes by high school students. Mr. Gutman has also established...