Word: gifts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Korean Central Intelligence Agency. Presidential emergency measure No. 9, for example, threatens stiff prison sentences for any act "denying, opposing, distorting or defaming the constitution." Such regulations have so intimidated the South Korean press that no newspaper dared carry the story that Park's party had demanded a gift of $10 million from Gulf Oil-and actually received $4 million. The news was deemed "detrimental to national solidarity...
...donned the hooded black robes required for entry into Moslem holy places. Elsewhere, however, there was less tourism and more talk of politics. How would Kennedy respond to a presidential draft at the Democratic Convention? asked one Iranian student. The Senator paused, reached into a pocket for his new gift from Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Fahd, and replied, "I'd get out my worry beads...
...said that the gift was "largely all my doing," and that it grew out of conversations with officials of the Kenan Trust earlier this year about the need to finance innovative programs on the undergraduate level at all colleges...
Harvard has received a $300,000 gift for an endowed fund that will support the development of innovative programs is undergraduate education...
Incoherence approaches an absolute. It would take George Bernard Shaw to handle the resultant ironies of God, man and money. Condon merely bangs the ironies together, hoping that they will make comical sounds. Such is his rare and clangorous gift that sometimes they do. ∙John Skow