Word: gifts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...much for legends. Maybe some Rockefeller will come through with a last-minute gift to save the Hall, but don't count on it. History, after all, is bunk. Time for a geography lesson...
DIED. Michéal Mac Liammóir, 78, renowned Irish actor, designer and playwright; of a pulmonary embolism; in Dublin. Blessed with what he called a "godawful gift of gab" and a deep streak of talent, Mac Liammoir designed and appeared in 300 productions at Dublin's Gate, a famed small innovative theater he helped establish in 1928. In the 1960s he popularized the one-man show by giving, on four continents, marvelous solo recitations of passages he had culled from Oscar Wilde, an act he called The Importance of Being Oscar, and from centuries of Irish literature...
...story said that, during a 1973 meeting of the B.U. Board of Trustees Select Committee on University Needs, Silber said, "There have been any number of people crawling all over me for admission to our Medical School and our Law School who have not been tapped systematically for a gift to this university. I'm not ashamed to sell those indulgences...
...They fear that a gain for the Italian Communists might help the French Reds at the polls, which in turn would strengthen Italian Party Leader Enrico Berlinguer's hand. As one Christian Democratic Deputy put it: "An agreement with the Communists here would be a joli cadeau (pretty gift) for Georges Marchais, just as victory for the left in France would be a merveilleux cadeau for the Communists here...
Captain Nelia Worsley joined with freshmen Lauren Norton and Tania Huber at fall registration to enlist recruits. Each player bought her own skates and helmet, and with an anonymous $500 gift the team acquired gloves, pads and sticks. Bertagna, Harvard's assistant director of sports information and a former varsity goalie, volunteered to coach. Practices were scheduled three times a week at the dinner hour--sandwiched between varsity and intramural ice time...