Word: letterings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...General Services Administration weighed in with yet another report, entitled "Economic Factors Associated with Paper Sizes." It claimed, among other things, that the larger size would reduce by 5% the number of times a secretary needs a second page to finish a letter. Each second page, it went on, costs 4.60 (including charges for the secretary's retirement benefits and depreciation of her chair and her typewriter...
...Monday the Student Advisory Committee of the Institute of Politics at the Kennedy School of Government sent a letter to the school's dean. Graham T. Allison '62, asking that the name of the Engelhard Library of Public Affairs be changed. The following is an edited version of that letter...
...generally try to stay off the streets and out of harm's way. Such precaution has become more and more sensible as they have been increasingly subjected to threats, insults and assaults by Iranians angered at Washington's support of the Shah. Many Americans have received threatening letters, shoved under a door or placed under a car windshield wiper. One anonymous letter warned several American families in the central city of Isfahan: "If you think of yourself as a human being, quit your job as soon as possible and leave our country. Otherwise you will be blamed...
...with Lucifer. During the exhausting research and writing of Das Kapital, he was plagued by illnesses ranging from carbuncles to chronic liver inflammation. Padover shows the father of socialism distracting himself from the pain and humiliation of a carbuncle on the scrotum by quoting pornographic French verse in a letter to his German collaborator, Frederick Engels. More appealingly, there is a vignette of the whitebearded Marx trotting obediently on all fours round his London home, ridden by a five-year-old grandson. Marx's strengths and weaknesses are carefully chronicled: the affectionate relationship with his daughters, the Promethean capacity...
...award came as a complete surprise, Nye said yesterday. He also received a letter from President Carter expressing deep appreciation for the work...