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...weather continued to be major news this week, and in some parts of the country it required extraordinary efforts on the part of our staff. When New York Correspondent Marion Knox was assigned to cover the chilly plight of snowbound Buffalo (see THE NATION), she found that trains had stopped running, all highways were shut down, and no flights were landing at the Buffalo airport. Bundled up in her heaviest ski parka, Knox caught a flight to Rochester, the nearest functioning airfield. From there she hopped a truck carrying 35,000 lbs. of frozen veal, part of a two-mile...
...graduate or professional schools or paying off debts from college to give huge grants, they would like a better response from this group than they are presently getting. Part of the problem, Clifton believes, is that they "have an image of Harvard College Fund as a Fort Knox that has lots of money and does nothing with it." He hopes the Council program will show participants how gifts contribute to undergraduate life...
...strength has always been its ability to find oil. The company was started in 1909 by William Knox D'Arcy, an adventurer who somehow had wangled a concession to explore in Iran. The British government bought a 51% stake in BP in 1914 because Winston Churchill, then First Lord of the Admiralty, wanted a secure source of oil for the navy. Known originally as Anglo-Persian, the company was renamed British Petroleum several years after the government of Mohammed Mossadegh nationalized its Iranian concessions...
After exciting the crowd by ripping apart a 1972 Nixon bumper sticker, Patty Knox, Carter's Massachusetts campaign manager, told onlookers that the election results prove Massachusetts Democrats can turn out the vote even when former president John F. Kennedy '40's old nemesis is not heading the Republican ticket...
...lone score of the game came nine minutes into the first half as wing Amie Knox scooped the ball into the net. Knox had just passed the ball in on a penalty corner play, but none of the inners could muster a scoring shot. Knox finally scored on a rebound...