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...seven-hour event, organized by Harvard Students for Soviet Jewry, gathered signatures on roughly 1900 letters and about 1000 signatures on petitions on behalf of 13 Jews who have been denied permission to immigrate to the U.S. or Israel. Several scholars from Harvard and MIT also spoke at the write-a-thon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Write-a-thon for Soviets Draws 2900 Signatures | 10/7/1987 | See Source »

Just as a starter, the airline last week flew some of the fanciest loops and passes ever seen in corporate aviation. After a pressurized seven-hour meeting of its board of directors, the 52-year-old firm announced that Chairman Richard Ferris, 50, had resigned and would be replaced by Frank Olson, 54, who is currently head of the company's Hertz rental-car subsidiary. At the same time, for-sale signs were tacked onto Hertz as well as the Westin and Hilton International hotel chains, whose 149 hostelries constituted the third branch of the firm. Management also said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: United Once More | 6/22/1987 | See Source »

Fidel Castro has never been known for his brevity, but the Cuban leader was in full rhetorical flood last week when he gave the editor of the French Communist Party daily L'Humanite a seven-hour interview that did not end until 4:30 a.m. Castro defended his recent closing of free farmers' markets, calling their operators "thieves" who were hurting the business of state-run cooperatives. He ridiculed the welcome given to Cuban dissidents in France and other Western countries by suggesting they were less eager to receive ordinary immigrants. "If the U.S. wants to welcome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cuba: Can We Talk? Zzzzzzzz . . . | 6/8/1987 | See Source »

Some things never change, and the Bruins left Palmer Dixon Courts following a marathon seven-hour match with loss number...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: Netsters Trip Bruins | 4/25/1987 | See Source »

...coffee house set mixed with the soup kitchen crowd last night at a seven-hour benefit concert for the homeless in the Old Cambridge Baptist Church...

Author: By Martha A. Bridegam, | Title: Street Musicians Perform In Benefit for Homeless | 11/8/1986 | See Source »

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