Word: wednesday
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...Gulf Coast some of the more than 400,000 people who had evacuated returned to their homes late Wednesday. Thousands of others remained in emergency shelters, authorities said...
Late last week, as plans were laid for the ceremonial funeral in Westminster Abbey this Wednesday, the bodies of Mountbatten, his grandson and the Dowager Lady Brabourne were flown to Broadlands, his Hampshire estate, to lie in state in the white porticoed mansion. Britons would not soon forget that the distinguished old sea dog, when asked not long ago if he feared an I.R.A. attack, gruffly replied: "What would they want with an old man like me?" A man of civility and simplicity who tried to build bridges instead of exploiting divisions, he could not conceive that his death could...
Museum of Fine Arts--465 Huntington Ave., Boston. Telephone 267-9300. Hours: Wednesday through Sunday 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday 10 a.m.-9 p.m., closed Monday. Admission $1.75; $1.25 all day Sunday. Members and children under 16 free; senior citizens free Fridays; free to all Tuesday 5-9 p.m. Parking lot fee: $1 all day with a validated parking ticket; members 50 cents. Opening Aug. 9, "MFA Staff Exhibition," Current exhibits: "Alfred Stieglitz: Photographer," "Photographic Viewpoints," "William Morris Hunt: A Memorial Exhibition," "The Well-Dressed 18th Century Man," "Ceramic Treasures from Boston's Collections Past and Present," "The Sublime...
Carter's first victim was Califano, who was called to the Oval Office Wednesday evening. The President's Georgia Mafia gave Califano good marks for administering HEW, but accused him of being a big-spending liberal, a "slick operator" and "not a team player." Said a Carter aide: "Competence alone is not enough. There has to be loyalty." And not only to Carter; Califano had been at odds with Hamilton Jordan almost from the beginning. Califano has been faulted for not enthusiastically supporting Carter's bill to create a Department of Education separate from HEW. His case also...
McKibben describes only the rally on Saturday saying how it seemed small-scale. He is correct. Still, that is the way it was intended to be. When I called the Boston Clamshell office the Wednesday before the rally, a member told me that Saturday's rally was not planned to be large and that Sunday's rally was going to be the Hollywood production. I feel Sunday's event lived up to this billing. The field was crowded with enthusiastic people when I left. Jonathan D. Rabinovitz...