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...years the Office of Education has provided 80 per cent of the funds and the Graduate School of Education the remaining 20 per cent. "We began to get signals from Washington that we needed signs of support from the University in order to get Federal funds next year," Barbara Lass, executive director of the Upward Bound program, said...
...hope that this will give a fairer picture of Upward Bound. I would also hope that former Upward Bound students and staff from other programs would take a minute to come by and visit us at 3 Garden Street. Barbara Lass Executive Director
Sarah has an air of deceptive fragility, but the English lass is really porcelain on the outside, granite within. The girl is stone blind-the result of an equestrian accident. But she is making a wizard adjustment at her uncle's isolated house in Sussex. Then, rather abruptly, things spiral downward. Her boy friend Steve (Norman Eshley) leaves her alone to take an afternoon nap. She awakes to a house full of death. Some bloody maniac has gone crackers with a shotgun, cutting down everyone in the family. But he has accidentally dropped a clue-a bracelet with...
...intervention to free Cuba from Spain, the fairest of all heroines to North Americans was a rebel named Evangelina Cisneros-"this tenderly nurtured girl," the New York Journal mourned, "imprisoned at eighteen among the most depraved Negresses of Havana." In the flesh, Evangelina was a bloodthirsty lass who tried to kidnap a Spanish officer, but no matter. The Journal had her smuggled out of prison disguised as a sailor and exhibited her triumphantly at an open-air reception in Madison Square. A half-century later came Fidel ("I am not a Communist") Castro, briefly a hero of U.S. journalism during...
...states' powers over off-shore mining, his party colleagues refused to support him, and he was forced to make a humiliating retreat. Gorton's personal style was, to say the least, indiscreet. He once arrived late at a U.S. embassy party with a 19-year-old lass in tow, then spent the remainder of the evening chatting with her and ignoring his hosts and other officials present...