Word: pearls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...funding and the amount needed. Archie C. Epps III, dean of students and a member of the committee, has urged repeatedly that the University's policy remain "each tub on its own bottom"--undergraduate organizations should raise their own funds and receive subsidies only to get started. But Natasha Pearl '82, another committee member, argues that Third World organizations and women's groups have few alumni to call on for funds, and therefore may need annual subsidies to survive. Pearl also believes that $60,000 is "far too low," although she may "settle" for it. Other members of the committee...
...reception, no pneumatic-chicken campaign dinner. To honor Betty and Gerald Ford on their 32nd anniversary, some friends in Palm Springs sprang for something palmier. There was a formal dinner for 320, dancing and additional entertainment from a few talented guests: Bob Hope, Frank Sinatra, Phyllis Diller, Pearl Bailey and Tony Orlando (who tied yet another ribbon round that old oaken tune). "This is an exceptional night, a tremendous evening in the lives of Jerry and Betty Ford," said the former President and incumbent romantic. "We are more in love today than on the day we were married...
...Caribbean. Jamaicans are totally fed up with the chaos and the crisis through which they have gone. Jamaica used to be the pearl of the Caribbean, the model economy, proud to the point that we were resented by some other countries. To see Jamaica fall to the state where it was becoming an international beggar, totally broke, helped the other Caribbean countries to realize that this was not the way. They evaluated their own political movements in terms of what they saw happening in Jamaica. Hence there has been a very distinct shift, along with ours, in their own governments...
...details of the ringlets estimated to number 500 to 1000 are interesting, but not yet understood John C. Pearl of the Goddard Space Flight Center and co-investigator for the Voyager infrard experiment, said yesterday...
...rumble seat eight months ago and we was practically on what you might call the way to the altar inside of half an hour." In The Wide Net, a none-too-bright husband thinks his pregnant wife has drowned herself; an awkwardly large party is assembled to drag the Pearl River. Of course, no body is found, but Doc, who owns the net, pronounces himself pleased with the expedition: "I've never been on a better river-dragging, or seen better behavior. If it took catching catfish to move the Rock of Gibraltar, I believe this outfit could move...