Word: gifts
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Shame! Infamy! Horror! Sam Peckinpah has really tried to do it this time. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia is a gift to everyone who persists in misunderstanding such Peckinpah films as The Wild Bunch and Straw Dogs simply as paeans to brutality and orgies of tasteless violence. Alfredo Garcia could almost be dedicated to those benighted types. It is as if Peckinpah, sick of the accusations, decided to hurl them back and really make a film about violence...
Until he reaps such a cash bonanza, Nixon will probably remain in a financial bind. To help alleviate that, he has been considering selling his San Clemente property, which he once vowed would be presented to the U.S. public as a gift after his death and that of his wife. Daughters Julie and Tricia are reportedly urging their parents to return East, while Old Friend Bebe Rebozo has apparently suggested that the Nixons live near him on their Key Biscayne, Fla., property. The ex-President seems torn, because he also wants to be near research facilities for his long period...
Earthy Soldier. The same gift for deftness and diplomacy, still widely unsuspected, emerged in his dealings with South Vietnamese officers. Assigned in 1967 as deputy to General William Westmoreland, Abrams courted top Saigon officers, accepting slights with patience and devouring a Vietnamese meal intended to make him gag-chicken heads, goat meat and paddy...
...Harvard had more alumni donors, received more in alumni gifts to its annual fund and received more in total alumni gifts than any other public or private educational institution in the country. Harvard's alumni donation network is vast and geared for maximum impact. Needless to say, it is highly successful. Radcliffe, on the other hand, has a much more informal and low-key system for soliciting donations from alumnae. In addition, Radcliffe fund-raisers must overcome the ambiguities alumnae see in its current status as a separate institution without a faculty of its own and having little control over...
Laurance Rockefeller inherited two special interests from his father: conservation and medical research. Last week marked the 25th anniversary of his gift to the U.S. Government of 33,562 acres at Jackson Hole, Wyo. The land became Grand Teton National Park. Thanks to another gift from Laurance, there is also a 5,000-acre national park on the island of St. John in the U.S. Virgins...