Word: teresas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...announced the previous week -to Allan Cormack, 55 (U.S.), and Godfrey Hounsfield, 60 (British)-completed this year's prize slate of eleven. The 1979 list of winners is notable for several reasons. For once, the often controversial Peace Prize went to an individual beyond criticism or calumny: Mother Teresa, 69, who has spent a selfless lifetime working in the slums of Calcutta. The prize for literature went to the Greek lyric poet Odysseus Elytis. The twin economics prizes went to men whose concern has been the problems of the developing world...
This week's winners, in addition to Mother Teresa and Poet Elytis...
Last week Mother Teresa of Calcutta, 69, was awarded the 1979 Nobel Prize for Peace...
Tiny, gray-eyed, her face deeply seamed with the passing years, Mother Teresa received the news with characteristic lack of fuss in the Missionaries of Charity motherhouse in Calcutta. She has won an array of international honors, and though this one carried the biggest stipend so far-$190,000-she took it in stride. "Personally, I am unworthy," she said in her first response to the award...
...didn't, and two weeks later the first ever Harvard football cheerleading squad is still alive and kicking with a $500 budget, a set of megaphones and a year's supply of bobby socks to its name. And they intend to hold their own, Teresa Coutu '81 announces, proud that she is part of the "start of a tradition, a Harvard tradition...