Word: gifts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Catherine Mullally Seattle I just returned from a kibbutz near Israel's border with Lebanon. During my stay we received a gift from the P.L.O. - a bomb. Fortunately no one was hurt, but that was not their intent. To grant the P.L.O. self-determination is a step toward the elimination of Israel...
...Gift from Mexico Mexico is finally giving the U.S. the oil [Aug. 20] our economy so desperately craves. However, Mexico didn't say that we would have to scrape it off our beautiful beaches...
Born in 1872 into the minor aristocracy of tsarist Russia, Diaghilev hungered for artistic recognition. He studied composition with Rimsky-Korsakov, but he had no musical talent. Soon, after, he joined the art circle of Alexandre Benois and Leon Bakst. Here, too, his gift was for organization and promotion. With Diaghilev as editor, the group published the World of Art, an influential journal that celebrated Baudelaire, Balzac and the pre-Raphaelites...
...winner of a National Book Award (for The Oysters of Locmariaquer, 1964), Clark combines an elegant prose style with a richly lyrical gift. But her true metier is nonfiction, which better serves her discerning eye. Readers of Oysters or Rome and a Villa will not be surprised to find that the best thing in Gloria Mundi is her evocation of New England's character and countryside.-Annalyn Swan
...Buicks, which the charity sells for nominal sums, usually about $200. It is not complaining. Said Spokeswoman Elaine Lewis: "It takes a lot of used clothing to bring in $200." One of Los Angeles' Salvation Army divisions, which is housed in a former Ford factory, accepted eleven gift cars one week, including a 1941 Cadillac and a 1970 Coupe de Ville with power steering, power windows and power brakes. The latter was owned by a middle-aged doctor, who walked in one morning and asked General Supervisor Richard Hilt: "Do you want this car?" Recalled Hilt: "When I said...