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...about 200 or 300 cultural leaders throughout the United States offer nominations for the Jefferson Lecture. The National Council of the Humanities, composed of 26 presidential appointees, makes the final decision on the choice of a lecturer. At the time of Freund's selection, council members included Edward H. Levi, former president of the University of Chicago and present attorney general, Hanash Gray, provost of Yale, and Martin I. Kihon, professor of Government...

Author: By Michael L. Silk, | Title: Endowment for the Humanities Gives Lecture Post to Freund | 2/24/1975 | See Source »

...other epee bouts freshman Robert Fillman won his contest but both Levi Perry and John Hawkins lost close matches...

Author: By Andrew P. Quigley, | Title: Crimson Fencing Squad Crushes Brandeis, 20-7 In Tuneup for Princeton | 2/6/1975 | See Source »

...Edward Levi, president of the University of Chicago, has been proposed as Attorney General. The selection is under fire from Senator James Eastland, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, who considers him too liberal. Levi has not revealed whether he is indeed a Democrat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Gerald Ford: They Will See Something Is Being Done | 1/20/1975 | See Source »

...lovers have responded to this threat with a new organization of their own called the Gun Owners Action League (GOAL). Clifford Levi, a founder of GOAL, says, "We needed an organization that could reach out to the mass of unorganized gun owners." He says that its membership, now well over 3000, is "growing like crazy...

Author: By David A. Copithorne, | Title: Gun Control: Debate Begins Again | 12/20/1974 | See Source »

...camera identity for himself. The vehicle he has chosen is a numskull cops-and-robbers piece about a skip tracer (someone who hunts down bail jumpers). Hayes forsakes his rock-performing wardrobe of bare chest wrapped in chains to slop around Los Angeles in a variety of Levi outfits, glowering, guzzling cans of Coors and ferreting out various criminal types. He is called Truck because his methods usually carry a certain violent impact, and "a gross son of a bitch" for different, although equally obvious reasons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Semiskilled | 7/22/1974 | See Source »

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