Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dulleses are remembered somewhat grimly: the stern Foster in steel-rimmed glasses, cocking his chin against the Communist threat; Allen, urbane but swallowed by the anonymity of his institution; and Eleanor, out of sight altogether. Biographer Leonard Mosley shows them to be a brood who, for all their Republican orthodoxy, were capable of great spirit and flashes of color...
Convinced that the entire network was in the R.C.M.P.'S noose, the government last week summoned Soviet Ambassador Alexander Yakovlev to the Department of External Affairs. He was told that Canada had "irrefutable evidence" of the caper. Yakovlev was handed a stern protest and coldly informed that eleven of his colleagues were being kicked out of Canada; two others, in Moscow on leave, would not be allowed to return...
...group of Harvard students is organizing a volunteer network to shovel snow for elderly Cambridge residents and to prepare for future snow emergencies. Margaret A. Stern '80, an organizer of the Dunster-based group, said yesterday...
...Stern said she called the Cambridge Civil Defense League to volunteer yesterday morning. "They suggested that we set up a network of volunteers who could help out in storms like the one we just had," she said...
...volunteers in Dunster House alone. Announcements concerning volunteer work were made at lunch in several houses, and sign-up lists were posted in entryways throughout the driveways. "Many elderly people cannot get outside their houses and many of those do not have telephones to call for help," Stern said. She added, students who wish to volunteer should just knock on houses where the snow has not been shovelled and offer assistance...