Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Leaders of six Harvard's student groups issued a statement yesterday committing their groups to "the relief of famine in Biafra." They invited the Cambridge community to an organizational meeting tonight at 7:30 p.m. at 2 Divinity...
Students can aid Biafra in four ways, said the Harvard supporters: by collecting money door-to-door in the suburbs, by addressing envelopes for mail appeals, by organizing church relief efforts in home communities over the vacation, and by conducting drives to increase the relief efforts of the government...
...charities suggested to students by the Drive, the Biafra Relief Program and the Committee of Responsibility received the largest amounts while Ethiopian Literacy Committee received the least...
Actually, Alma appears to have been no helpless, trusting flower but a full-blooded coquette who ultimately found Oskar too demanding. When Kokoschka marched off to war in 1914, even he felt a certain sense of relief. ("It was very exhausting," he was later heard to say. "I had to climb into her room at night.") By the time he came back, Alma had become the wife of Walter Gropius, the German architect, whom she subsequently divorced in order to live with and eventually marry Franz Werfel, the novelist...
Kleindienst's memo indicated that the main purpose of the exercise is to impress Congressmen, who each year are skeptical when the department tries to prove that it needs money to hire more lawyers. "The long-term effect, if time is accurately recorded," said Kleindienst, "will be a relief of individual pressure through provision of adequate personnel and resources to handle our work...