Word: leafed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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During the lazy decades before the war in Viet Nam spread to Cambodia, now called Kampuchea, mornings in Phnom-Penh began when Buddhist bonzes filed slowly out from their wats (monasteries) in search of food. They proceeded along tree-lined boulevards, past colonial mansions and temples glistening with gold leaf, begging until their silver bowls were filled with rice and fresh mangoes. That usually did not take very long...
...Alexander Leaf, Jackson Professor of Medicine and recently named Ridley Watts Professor of Preventive Medicine, said yesterday he notified University and hospital official of this decision in April, 1979. He said he decided to leave the chairmanship, which he assumed in 1966, because he wanted to devote more time to teaching and research...
...joint Harvard-MGH search committee, formed after Leaf made his desire to leave the position known, has reportedly completed interviewing candidates and is near a decision. Its chairman, Dr. Gerald Austen, chief of surgical services at MGH, was unavailable for comment yesterday...
...Leaf, 60, will become the new chairman of the Department of Preventive Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology after leaving his current position. That department, along with the Department of Social Medicine and Health Policy, was formed in September when the Department of Preventive and Social Medicine split into two divisions...
...less than two weeks, the 1980-81 National Hockey League season gets underway. The exhibition schedule is already half gone, and opening night at Boston Garden and the Coliseum and the Spectrum and Maple Leaf Gardens and Le Forum quick approaches even as George Brett struggles to hit .400 and the Yankees near yet another pennant. It is a cycle as old as life itself...