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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sensational today; every one of the 2800 seats is a good one: reconstruction has eliminated the old blind spots. Committee member Andrew Heiskell, publisher of Time Magazine, kept muttering about how impressive it all was as construction workers tried to look busy. There was talk of being able to use the rink for events (like graduation) forced indoors by inclement weather, and I wondered why it couldn't be made into a mini-Boston Garden, with portable ice and a basketball floor...

Author: By Jonathan J. Ledecky, | Title: A Beginning and an End | 5/29/1979 | See Source »

Brian S. Petrovek '77, co-director of the Harvard-Radcliffe Fund, said while students can restrict the use of the Biko Fund, they haven't done...

Author: By J. WYATT Emmerich, | Title: Biko Fund Creator Urges Total Class Gift Boycott | 5/29/1979 | See Source »

Petrovek said, however, the admissions and financial aid committee has its own guidelines in determining the use of scholarship funds...

Author: By J. WYATT Emmerich, | Title: Biko Fund Creator Urges Total Class Gift Boycott | 5/29/1979 | See Source »

Fereydoun Hoveida, 54, has taken the advice that personnel experts usually dish out to business executives who get the sack: Use your new free time doing something you have been wanting to do. Hoveida, fired as Iran's longtime United Nations ambassador by the revolutionary regime, is devoting his time to writing and art. The deposed diplomat, who in the past penned essays, film criticisms and six novels, has turned to nonfiction: the events that led to the downfall of the Shah and the execution of Hoveida's older brother, former Premier Amir Abbas Hoveida. Meanwhile, a Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 28, 1979 | 5/28/1979 | See Source »

...fictional dirty-tricks agency that turns up with distressing regularity in recent movies. The reason Roy is shaky is that a bunch of baddies have killed his wife while aiming at him. Discharged from a rest home, he gets the strong impression that his bosses no longer have any use for him, and indeed we see them running his dossier through the paper shredder and deciding to do something very similar to his person. To compound his difficulties, a rather schizzy young woman (Janet Margolin) has mysteriously taken up residence in his apartment (her story of a mixed-up sublease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Hugs and Kisses | 5/28/1979 | See Source »

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