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Even as the last was in progress, another group of undergraduates began a more direct approach. The students created an alternative fund to the Senior Class Gilt called the "Endowment for Divestiture," that locks senior donations into an escrow account. The funds will be turned over to Harvard it and when it divests from firms doing business in South Africa, or when the United Nations "clears" the South African government by lifting its 1976 call for corporate withdrawal from that country. It neither occurs within 20 years, the money will be given to charitable organizations in the Harvard community...
Imagine one of his myriad challengers actually kayoing Joe Louis in his prime, or a 20-game loser burning the ball past the lordly New York Yankees of the Babe Ruth era. For the sailing cognoscenti along the gilt-edged waterfront of Newport, R.I., an upset of such proportions is a very real possibility. Not in anything so plebeian as boxing or baseball, to be sure, but in the patrician world of yachting, where, over the din of clinking champagne glasses, the chitchat is about fears that the longest winning streak in sports is about to end. After 132 years...
...Poles, the Black Madonna of Czestochowa is far more than an object of Roman Catholic reverence. It is a source of historical continuity, a cause and remembrance of national liberation from foreign enemies, and a fount of miracles. The 4-ft. by 2½-ft. gilt-and-tempera dark-hued portrait of the Virgin Mary and Christ child is laden with gems and silver. By legend, the painting is attributed to St. Luke the Evangelist, and was executed on a table top from the house of Mary, Joseph and Jesus in Nazareth. It origins are unknown, but it may date...
...fact they, more than the gilt and the grandeur, sum up the job and the personality of the man who holds it. Anthony Bliss is indeed the Big Tone, the general manager, ultimate authority on everything that occurs at the Metropolitan Opera. And he is also totally committed to his company, so oblivious to almost everything else that he probably could, as his wife once jokingly observed, dine on Alpo dog food and not know the difference...
Hedgeman, who is fouring the country to promote her latest book. "The Gilt of Chaos," spoke at the Schlesmger Library luncheon series a four sear old program of icctuses by the women whose papers and oral histories are preserved at the library...