Word: gifts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...road." Most jovially received present: a pound of bacon, presented by reporters to Secretary of State Cyrus Vance before they all landed at Andrews Air Force Base last week. Said the correspondent chosen to hand over the pork, forbidden to both Jews and Muslims: "This gift contains no salt and has been rejected by both parties in the Middle East...
Tosteson officially accepted the gift at the United Cerebral Palsy Foundation's annual dinner in New York City December...
...William Berenberg '36, professor of Pediatrics and chairman of the Cerebral Palsy Foundation's research committee, helped arrange the gift to Harvard. Berenberg said yesterday the Hearst Foundation currently supports research by two members of the Med School faculty, but this is the largest gift it has ever given to the University...
...husband in New York's Westchester County presented his startled family with a gift-wrapped sack of long johns from Maine's L.L. Bean, plus a chain saw so that the boys could provide wood for a warming fireplace to keep the Arabs at bay. The greatest yields from the Sears, Roebuck catalogue were in home improvement lines (tools, paints, fixtures), home furnishings (bedspreads were big) and save-work appliances like a microwave oven...
Transplanted Easterners who started collaborating while they were still teenagers in Los Angeles, Leiber and Stoller, who are now both 45, shared an uncanny gift for crossing musical bloodlines. Both loved black rhythm-and-blues music, and could write it with such glancing wit and thorough funk that their songs sounded fresh off the streets. It is worth keeping in mind that at the time of the first major Leiber-Stoller hit, Hound Dog, released by Willie Mae ("Big Mama") Thornton in 1953, pop music had its own kind of enforced segregation. The sudden, seismic synthesis of mainstream...