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...KNOW the situation. It's Saturday night, Madame Baltin, your latest romantic prey, has become tantalizingly available with the departure of her attendant herr, but you have a lingering engagements with pesky Ida (Carolyn Casanave). Despair not if you are Baron Ferdinand Rommer (Rex D. Hays): just have ever-solicitous Gaston ring with some appropriately vague but familiar explanation--"affairs of state" and all. Cole Porter, you certainly know your noble playboys well...
Industrialist Andrew Carnegie's mother begged him not to marry until after she died; he waited one year after her death and finally wed at 52. Dwight Eisenhower interrupted planning of the Allied invasion of France in May 1944 to send a Mother's Day greeting to Ida Eisenhower in Kansas. When Franklin Roosevelt was quarantined with scarlet fever at boarding school, his distraught mother Sara climbed a ladder each day to peer through the window of his room to check on his recovery. Actor James Dean explained his troubled life this way: "My mother died...
...Yale's Jodie Foster and Jennifer Beals, Copaken currently has no plans to take time off from school to act in other movies. While she might try out for movies that have summer filming schedules, she plans to confine her interest in drama to Harvard productions, such as "Princess Ida" in which she has a chorus role for this fall...
Requiring only an hour to complete, the test can be done in the most basic laboratory and will cost only about $1 or $2. Wands said Pending IDA approval, it could be available within a few months to a year, he added...
...back on its IDA contributions. If credit-worthy beneficiaries like India (which now gets one-third of the IDA'S largesse) and China were forced to borrow at the bank's subsidized interest rates, according to the report, the poorer countries could receive higher levels of aid. To qualify for the grants, which, technically, must be repaid within 50 years, a country must have a per capita income of less than...