Word: inglis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...board of directors of the 1.7 million-member National Education Association formally en- dorsed his candidacy for the party's nomination. So did the general board of the AFL-CIO, and this week leaders representing all 14 million AFL-CIO members are expected to ratify that decision, enter- ing Big Labor, with all its organizing muscle and money, into a Democratic pre-convention campaign for the first time ever. On Saturday a caucus of Maine Democratic activists yielded Mondale a satisfying if relatively meaningless (there would have been meaning only if he had lost) 51% victory. Next week Mondale...
...very simple family man, entirely devoted to his temperamental wife-he was really a henpecked husband. I sang a lot of his lieder, and often his wife Pauline would listen. Sometimes Pauline would run to him, throwing her arms around him, saying with big sobs of touch ing sentimentality, "Do you remember, Richard?"-and he would have tears in his eyes, too. They were a strange couple. They fought like mad-needless to say, Pauline always started these fights . . . He said to me when I departed: "You have seen a lot which you will find strange in this house...
...police spokesman said yesterday. The 36 bicycles belonging to the group, as well as the van from which the items were taken, were not damaged during the robbery, which took place between midnight Friday and 7.30 Saturday morning, police said No suspects have been identified and chances for recover ing the stolen goods are "not good," they added...
...shade past the ingénue stage, but not quite right yet for classic leading-lady roles, Margaux Hemingway, 27, apparently has to take what comes in between. And that means teaming up with Elliott Gould, 44, in something called Over the Brooklyn Bridge. (In a singular stroke of good judgment, the producers changed the film's title from My Darling Shiksa.) If her screen work seems a little pale, the Hemingway magic returns the moment she lapses into her first vocation as model. Even when she dons men's clothes in Paris for a fashion spread, Margaux...
...center for Middle Eastern Studies, notes that problems may arise when foreign donors do not understand Harvard's policy of accepting only donations without conditions: "After all, American philanthropy is a very special institution in the world." The normal procedure with international donations, according to Keenan, includes "explain[ing] these matters when dealing with foreign interests." The University's traditional basis of support--alumni and American philanthropic associations--need no such caveats, he adds...