Word: joints
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...dispute between Syria and Iraq over the sharing of Euphrates River water. Last week Syria unexpectedly deferred that confrontation by promising to release more Euphrates water for Iraq from behind the new, slowly filling Tabqa Dam. Syrian President Hafez Assad also scheduled a visit to Jordan to discuss a joint military command with King Hussein. The idea has been proposed in the past and abandoned; the latest move was more significant as a demonstration of Syria's willingness to improve even further its relations with the beleaguered Hussein, who was isolated by other Arab leaders for opposing claims...
Died. Paulo Picasso, 54, only legitimate child of Pablo Picasso; of blood poisoning; in a Paris hospital. Joint heir with Picasso's widow, Jacqueline, to the artist's priceless collection of paintings, "Paulo" was unsuccessful in denying the claims of his father's three illegitimate children to a share in the estate. Young Picasso lived wanly in the massive shadow of his father, helping out occasionally as handyman and chauffeur. His own son, Pablito, died in agony three months after drinking bleaching fluid because he was barred from his grandfather's villa when the artist died...
...appointed Rulan C. Pian '44, joint professor in Music and East Asian Civilization, as South House Master, and her husband Theodore H. Pian, professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT, as co-master...
Closer to Cambridge there were changes in personnel, most notably Seymour M. Lipset, professor of Government and Social Relations, who will probably be at Stanford next year; and Robert W. Fogel, author of a much-debated book on slavery, who was appointed to a joint professorship in Economics and History...
Leahy, associate dean of the Faculty for resources and planning, has a stake in the Shirkola Forest because it is in the midst of the national parkland that a joint Harvard-Iran commission has earmarked for a graduate university...