Word: names
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...southern tier of Afghanistan. This nation was literally quartered by the British map makers who brushed in arbitrary political boundaries during their heyday of 19th century imperialism. Like so much of this part of the world in the late 20th century, this "country" can no longer be ignored. Its name is Baluchistan (pronounced Ba-loo-chi-stan...
...love in a thronelike chair, once owned by Rudolph Valentino, is Marvin Mitchelson, a divorce lawyer who has made millions off love gone wrong in Hollywood. Since the mid-1960s, Mitchelson, 50, has piled up a long list of financially rewarding victories in celebrity divorce battles, sometimes representing big- name clients (Rhonda Fleming, Connie Stevens, Red Buttons) but more often fighting for the showfolks' spouses. Among them: the wives of Rod Steiger, Alan Jay Lerner, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Richard Harris and Tony Curtis, who has had the misfortune of losing child-custody cases to not one but two Mitchelson...
Though Michelle legally took Marvin's last name, the two were never married. After meeting on the set of Ship of Fools in 1964, they embarked on a six-year relationship that ended in 1970, when Marvin moved out and married Pamela Feeley, his high school sweetheart. Michelle, now 46, says that when she and Marvin split, he began paying her a stipend of $800 a month. But Marvin, 54, cut her off after a year, and she went to Mitchelson. He filed suit on her behalf, demanding full payment of what Michelle said Lee had promised...
...that group, 52 per cent said the University should "take whatever steps necessary" to change the name of the Kennedy School library, which is named after the late Charles W. Engelhard, an American businessman who built his fortune through mining interests in South Africa...
...chances of changing the Engelhard Library's name are slim at the very best, most administrators agree. But Richard C. Marius, director of the Expository Writing program, says he will do all he can to revive the undergraduate Writing Center, whose operations were suspended this fall for lack of cash. Marius this week promised that Expos teachers will each contribute one free hour a week to help students with their prose next fall...