Word: moorehead
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...river as a journalist during the Simba uprising that bloodied the Congo basin in 1964. He has spent the intervening years assembling the story of what Central Africans call "the river that swallows all rivers." The result is an absorbing, fast-paced book that deserves to stand beside Alan Moorehead's White Nile and Blue Nile. Unlike the Nile, the Congo held no fascination for Europeans. It was discovered almost by accident by the Portuguese mariner Diogo Cao, who sailed into its mouth in 1482 while searching for, among other things, the kingdom of Prester John, whose realm had been...
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...Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS) will hold a women's dinner in the Mather House game room today after its plans for a dinner in the House dining hall were cancelled, Denise M. Moorehead '77, RUS vice president, said last week...
...River House location will allow more people to attend the dinners, Moorehead said yesterday. She added RUS expects 100 people to come to the dinner...
...women's dinners, a large percentage of the RUS members in River Houses would like to participate in such an activity. Therefore, RUS will find a way to serve its members. Plans for an RUS women's dining hall at a River location are not dead! Denise M. Moorehead '77 Vice-President, Radcliffe Union of Students