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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Election to the Academy is considered an honor bestowed by fellow scientists, and includes no financial reward...

Author: By Gabriel Kahana, | Title: Six Professors Selected to Join Science Academy | 5/2/1977 | See Source »

Will the little "black boxes" tell who was responsible for the loss of 575 lives at Tenerife? No, the bombers of Las Palmas Airport already hold claim to that honor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 2, 1977 | 5/2/1977 | See Source »

...world. But not at home in the U.S.S.R., which he left in 1974 on a two-year visa and to which he does not plan to return until he is guaranteed full artistic freedom. One invitation he accepted was to play with the student orchestra at Brown, in honor of the inauguration of the university's new president, Howard Swearer. So well subscribed was the event that Rostropovich found himself playing the Saint-Saëns Concerto No. 1 in A minor in the hockey rink. He also gave some free advice to Brown student cellists ("Technique must come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 2, 1977 | 5/2/1977 | See Source »

Kirkland House will open its first annual wrist-wrestling competition tonight to raise money for a scholarship fund established in honor of Andrew Puopolo '77, the football player killed in a Boston Combat Zone fight last November...

Author: By Edward Josephson, | Title: Benefit Wrist-Wrestling Contest Opens Today at Kirkland House | 4/25/1977 | See Source »

Over the years, says Martz, the library has acquired first editions of works by virtually every major 18th century author. Many of the collection's trophies are currently on display in honor of the new Yale Center. The exhibit begins with Dryden's Fables, Ancient and Modern, which was published in London in 1700, and ends with Wordsworth's manuscript for the second edition of Lyrical Ballads, which appeared in 1800. Also on display are The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, An Elegy Wrote in a Country Churchyard, and James Boswell's manuscript...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Yale's Shrine to the Age of Reason | 4/25/1977 | See Source »

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