Word: june
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...number. To find out just how big it is, the 31 pupils in Catherine Swiger's fifth-grade class in South Portland, Me., are collecting bottle caps. Since October, the children have accumulated nearly 140,000 and rather optimistically expect to reach their goal of 1 million by June 1980, when they will cash in their hoard with a scrap dealer and throw a class party...
Meanwhile, Bakhtiar, an ex officio regency-council member, moved to win popular support for his government. He immediately lifted press censorship and reopened the universities closed last June. In presenting his new Cabinet to Parliament, he detailed elements of a program that included support for Iran's Arab neighbors, "especially the Palestinians," and a ban on future oil shipments to Israel and South Africa. He promised to disband SAVAK, the secret police, and announced that he had released 266 political prisoners and would compensate families of the more than 2,000 Iranians who had been killed in the months...
...Last June, Herbert Armstrong excommunicated his mellifluous TV preacher son Garner Ted, 48, who now operates a 3,000-member offshoot, the Church of God, International, from Tyler, Texas. Since the family fallout, the Worldwide Church has been run by Rader, a lawyer who was baptized by Herbert in 1975. The suit claims that Rader, whose 40-year-old secretary wed Herbert Armstrong in April 1977, may have reaped the profit from the $1.8 million sale of his Beverly Hills estate, which allegedly was maintained at church expense. The suit also raises questions about Rader's financial involvement...
This piece by Donald Carswell '50, winner of the Dana Reed Prize, first appeared in The Crimson June 14, 1950. Plus ca change...
...June 11, 1973. Today I graduated from Harvard University. As my parents watched with pride, Prof. Alan Heimert, Master of Eliot House, presented my diploma and shook my hand, acknowledging my existence for the first time in three years. Amazing what the proper audience can do. If the athlete thinks that graduation means the end of games, wait until he tries to get a job on the outside. That's where the real games begin...