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Last week Pusey's eloquent plea brought in some unexpected results-a gift that will boost the Divinity School's kitty to $2,000,000, plus an additional $500,000 from the Harvard Corporation.* The gift had come to Pusey in the form of a personal letter from a notable Baptist layman...
Then, last August 1953, thanks in part to the aid and knowledge of Bruno Pontecorvo, the Russians set off a superbomb explosion on the Aksu River. The Italian-born physicist and friend of MacLean was suddenly one of the most honored figures in Russia. When he added his plea to that of MacLean's, the Communists no longer denied him. Donald wrote Melinda, and soon the MacLean family was on its way to the ten-room villa they now occupy as the wife and children of a top-ranking Red bureaucrat...
...home for the holidays, mustered slightly frozen smiles at a ceremony in Independence, Mo., where the former President snipped a 30-ft. red ribbon to open a new section of the 20-mi. Truman Road trafficway. Later, warming up to his subject at an indoor luncheon, Truman made a plea for safer driving, said he hoped the thoroughfare "will be used for traffic instead of a new scene for slaughter...
Philosopher Marten ten Hoor of the University of Alabama is convinced that the U.S. has become a nation of busybodies. In the current American Scholar, Ten Hoor, Ph.D. from Michigan, makes a "plea for education for privacy...
...personal contacts it brings her, and bothers her only because it brings too many. A "Do Not Disturb" sign from a hotel room hangs outside her front door to ward off the thousands of tourists who besiege her sunny old age. Yet those who get past that printed plea find that Grandma's main interest, now as ever, is people. Recently a visitor asked the radiant little old lady of what she was proudest after her 93 years of life and labor. The answer could not have been more Christian, or more grandmotherly: "I've helped some people...