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...much to an organization that most Westerners have never heard of. The organization is the International Development Association, a branch of the World Bank founded in 1960 by 15 World Bank member nations to make "soft," easy-term loans-with no political strings attached-to poor nations. Last week IDA reached a milestone when the total it has loaned passed $1 billion...
...planning project. (It has been estimated that five million people a year may come to the library in the first few years. Consider the effect of that little increase in Harvard Square traffic. Or consider the parking problem.) Again, he has experience in Cambridge--he designed the Cecil and Ida Green Building, Center for the Earth Sciences, which towers over M.I.T...
...Gilbert and Sullivan Players also entertained the throng. Joel C. Martin '65, Daniel A. Goodenough '66, and Thomas A. Segall '65 bourreed across the stage and gave a rendition of a song from Princess Ida...
...heart attack; in Beverly Hills, Calif. Born Izzy Iskowitz on Manhattan's Lower East Side, Cantor sang, danced and joked his way to stardom on Broadway (Banjo Eyes) and in Hollywood (Kid Boots), pioneered live comedy on radio and TV, set the U.S. humming such ditties as Ida and Oh How She Can Yicky Yacki Wicki Wacki Woo. Stricken with heart trouble in 1952, grieved by the death of his wife and eldest daughter, he donated most of his later years and many of his millions to charity. But charity had always been a big thing with Cantor...
Fainting & Needlework. Ida McKinley, on the other hand, was given to fainting spells, and she whiled away nearly all of her husband's term doing needlework. William Howard Taft's wife Helen attended every Cabinet meeting with him, and when the press accused her of influencing policy, she insisted that she went along only to keep him awake. Woodrow Wilson's second wife Edith was called "the Acting President" because only she and a doctor could visit-and presumably influence -her husband during the months that he lay ill after a stroke...