Word: relief
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thomas scored at 1:27 as Harvard again came out flying. The Crimson fans, who had been squirming in their seats during the second period, seemd to breathe a welcome but much too premature sigh of relief...
There'll be A Tribute to the Farah Workers, with Denise Levertov the poet and the Brandeis Chorus and Symphony, Sunday at 8:30 in the Emmanuel Church, 15 Newbury Street in Boston. $2 donation, with proceeds to the Farah strike relief fund...
...twelve years he became chairman of the Chase National (now Chase Manhattan) Bank and earned resentment from the financial community for proposing such reforms as the absolute separation of investment and commercial banking. A spruce, reserved descendant of Mayflower passengers, during World War II Aldrich headed the British War Relief Society and, after supporting Dwight Eisenhower's candidacy in 1952, left banking to become Ambassador to the Court of St. James...
...average man, says Harrington, has a "feeling of total helplessness" in trying to get relief or response from the government in dealing with the large organizations...
...found sincere. And Lumet, Salt and Wexler never detail the reluctance of police higher-ups to listen to Serpico: New York City and police officials are cardboard figures of mishandled authority. Because the film's view of the force is so sketchy, we get little sense of accomplishment or relief from the formation of the Knapp Commission--which was, after all, the first independent police review board in the history of New York City...