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...executive order. Title IV, was issued requiring that all institutions receiving more than $50,000 in federal contract money negotiate an affirmative action plan with the Office of Civil Rights which would include timetables for the hiring of minorities and women...

Author: By Wendy L. Wall, | Title: The Debate Goes On | 6/4/1981 | See Source »

Half course (spring term). M., W., F., at conference or laboratory section each week. (IV...

Author: By Thomas Hines, | Title: While Venerable Gen Ed Withers | 6/4/1981 | See Source »

...letter written in 1246 by Genghis Khan's grandson and heir, the Grand Khan Kuyuk, grandiosely inviting Pope Innocent IV and "the kings of the West" to a summit conference at Karakorum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Papal Letters from the Past | 5/18/1981 | See Source »

...18th century extramarital frolicking with the royals remained a family tradition. Of note were two daughters of the first Earl Spencer. Georgiana, the beautiful Duchess of Devonshire but better known as the Duchess of Dimples, achieved unwedded bliss with a Prince of Wales, the eventual George IV. Her comely sister Henrietta boasted in her diary: "In my 51st year I am courted, follow'd, flatter'd and made love to, en toutes les formes, by four men." Not all the Spencers were so sportive. George, brother of the third Earl Spencer, converted to Roman Catholicism and, as Father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All in the Family | 4/20/1981 | See Source »

Ambrose Gaines IV is no lexicographer, but he has changed the definition of one word for people who follow swimming. "Rowdy," to them, no longer means rough or disorderly. It means rapidly successful, competitive, and very, very fast. It means Ambrose Gaines IV...

Author: By L. JOSEPH Garcia, | Title: Rowdy (raud e) (adj): Very Fast | 4/8/1981 | See Source »

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