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...purpose of the program was "to show recognition to (Guinier's) dedication and tireless efforts in working with friends and students and appreciation in his work to ensure the Afro-Am Department remains stable and permanent," Eugene J. Green '80, president of the BSA, said...
...tireless in the bedroom as on the road or concert platform. His chief paramour in this volume is the sensuous Italian contralto Gabriella Besan-zoni. She and Rubinstein tour Latin America like a couple of gypsy children, piling up gold pesos under their bed as they go. Other liaisons are briefer: the demimondaine "Charlottavotte," whom he enjoys between the lifeboats on a crossing to South America; the American actress who is so enchanted by his playing that she offers herself to him for the night as a tribute; and many a French bourgeoise "who apparently needed a diversion from...
...letters show, the exiled Trotsky was as indefatigable in his attempts to overthrow Stalin as Stalin was tireless in his efforts to kill Trotsky, his family and his followers. A large number of Trotsky's letters are devoted to the organizing of his own revolutionary groups outside the U.S.S.R.-even as Stalin was organizing a special unit of his far-reaching secret police, the GPU, to hunt down Trotsky's supporters, family and Trotsky himself. By 1938 his first wife and two sons had already been exterminated...
...American hostages held under threat of death at the captured U.S. embassy compound in Tehran. At his right sat Penny Laingen, wife of L. Bruce Laingen, the imprisoned chargé d'affaires in Tehran. On his left sat Vice President Walter Mondale and Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, whose tireless efforts through a fortnight of nerve-racking negotiations had achieved as little as those of the President himself...
...second half the seemingly tireless Villar came off the bench to spark the Crimson attack again. Sprinting back to cover on defense, then racing down the wing to collect passes and center the ball. Villar kept Crimson hopes alive...