Word: golde
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When you think of a Harvard fundraising drive, you usually envision a group of wealthy alumni gathered in a major northeastern city, smoking cigars, sipping Chivas and signing checks for enormous sums of money with dramatic flourishes of their gold fountain pens. While this image may have been partially accurate in the past, current fundraising efforts are increasingly diverse and complex, involving not only alumni but major corporations and occasionally foreign sources...
Other sure eye-catchers are Collins' own spacecraft and the Friendship Seven Mercury capsule that carried John Glenn on the first U.S. orbital flight. Perhaps the most appealing exhibit in the Space Hall, another of the great bays, is the massive black and gold Skylab space station. The only bottleneck in the building is at Skylab's narrow portal, where crowds line up to enter. Says Collins...
...With abundant gold are we constrained to buy a husband," lamented Euripedes' Medea in a sigh of woe that is as valid today as it was 2,500 years ago. No fewer than 32 articles of the modern Greek civil code govern and define the antique institution of the dowry -the practice of bestowing a property settlement on a daughter as an inducement to marriage. Now, however, Greece's time-honored system of mandatory dowries is under attack. Legislative pressure for its abolition comes chiefly from the seven women in Greece's 300-member Parliament. A draft...
...sacrifices made by Americans who died in the war. Prominent people who use this argument tend to be those most responsible for the futile deaths. Moreover, there is even an organization of parents of soldiers killed in the war that is working for universal, unconditional amnesty. The organization, Gold Star Parents for Amnesty, has tried repeatedly to reach the President and Mrs. Ford, but with no results...
...Should We Teach Religion in the Public Schools" will be answered on Feb. 2 at the Forum by several Harvard educators and clergymen, including Ben-Zion Gold, the director of Hillel at Harvard-Radcliffe, and John Mansfield, a professor at Harvard...