Word: rans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carter's defusing action on the Cuban crisis reminds me of the gent who, finding the milkman in bed with his wife, ran outside and kicked the milkman's horse...
...state. One Charlottesville wholesaler even offers a ''Dial-a-keg" service, complete with a fleet of truck drivers equipped with radio-telephone beepers, to keep up with scholarly thirst. But at a recent University of Virginia fraternity rush, guests actually drained the Pepsi kegs before the beer ran out. ''That had never happened before," says Associate Dean of Students Annette Gibbs, adding, "Boy, were they embarrassed...
...votes; in February he convinced two-thirds of Cleveland voters to raise their own income taxes and defeat a referendum to sell Muny Light; he finally won the approval of a hostile city council of his own plan to repay the banks. But in the primary October 2, Kucinich ran 11,228 votes behind Voinovich. Kucinich has heavy union support, but Voinovich is outspending him more than two to one. The deciding factor in the run-off may turn out to be the death of Voinovich's nine-year-old daughter, who was hit by a van October...
...eight months after the bust the Faculty still had not bothered to act on the merger and merger proponents were getting sick of waiting around. The Radcliffe Quarterly ran an editorial in December 1969, chastizing professorial lethargy on the merger. "The Faculty on Arts and Sciences has seemed in no hurry to put the merger on its agenda," the editorial criticized...
...that deal more directly with the analytical and philosophical side of the arts. "Learning from Performers" is one such program. Each year it brings guest artists to Harvard to work on a small scale with undergraduates. Last year, the program brought the director of Broadway's Pacific Overtures. He ran a three-part seminar with students interested in theatrical direction. This year the office will offer seminars with tenor Paul Sperry and playwright Jonathan Levy. Sculptor Ann Sperry will offer a seminar as well as lecturing about contemporary American women artists. "We want to get students involved with artists...