Word: granted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Progressive's lawyers responded that the U.S. Supreme Court had ruled in the 1971 Pentagon papers case that prior restraint of publication is unconstitutional. (That case was the only previous time a U.S. court had been asked to grant prior restraint based solely on grounds of national security...
...American Film Institute dinner in Beverly Hills, Calif., honoring bulbous Meisterzinger of Murder Alfred Hitchcock at 79. "Hitch's genius," quipped Actor John Forsythe, "is that he can put such life into death." Ingrid Bergman praised the director as "a gentleman farmer who raises goose flesh." Ventured Cary Grant, who managed to emerge alive from four Hitchcock epics: "The best is yet to come, Hitch." Spattered with tributes and smothered by adoration, Hitchcock observed in his familiar bullfrog voice: "Man does not live by murder alone. He needs affection, approval, encouragement and, occasionally, a hearty meal...
With a $1,000 grant from the Tufts rehabilitation department, Willard purchased two laboratory-bred capuchins named Crystel and Tish, at a cost of $350 each. Willard spent nearly a year training them with Skinner's trial-and-reward techniques and finally felt ready to turn them over to two handicapped people. One was a Mystic, Conn., woman who worked with Tish for three months before the experiment was halted. The other was William Powell, 31, who has been paralyzed from the shoulders down, except for partial use of his right arm (though not his hand), since a motorcycle...
...Republicans and the A.M.A. Undeterred, he went on to be come president of the $800 million Rockefeller Foundation in 1972, focusing domestically on problems of unemployment and population stabilization and, concerned with the interdependence of the developing and developed nations, sending more than half of the foundation's grant budget abroad...
...enterprise began in September 1977 funded by a University grant, staff members plan to publish an issue every semester beginning next fall and will meet in April to discuss production of the next issue...