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...years later, Jordan was named executive director of the United Negro College Fund, and he moved to New York City; in his first twelve months the organization raised a record $8 million for its 36 member colleges. When Whitney Young Jr. drowned in Nigeria in 1971, Jordan succeeded him as head of the National Urban League. It had been founded in 1910 to help black migrants from the rural South find jobs, housing and education in Northern cities...
...Still, it's a great place for us," Whitney Davis '80, a Fine Arts concentrator, says. "It allows us intimate contact with great artists' works and also provides opportunities for training in museum-related fields...
Boeing surely deserves credit for excellence in aircraft design, but don't forget the contribution made by the jet-engine companies, including Pratt & Whitney, General Electric and Rolls-Royce. The plane is designed around the engine. Recent advances in technology far surpass those of the airframe makers. The principal reason that Boeing and the other companies are venturing into new models is that these advances cut fuel costs while improving thrust and reliability...
...Harvard laxwomen fought to maintain the 4-4 tie, but they could not match the Minuteman teamwork. UMass freshman attack Whitney Thayer notched two unassisted tallies at 10:04 and 16:49 to clinch the contest...
...clarity, a power to rid the mind of its daily rubbish and replace the clutter with a strictness of feeling released by apparently simple objects. Noguchi is 75, and at present three exhibitions in Manhattan celebrate his anniversary: a show of his theater and public-space designs at the Whitney Museum, a group of "landscape tables" at the Andre Emmerich Gallery and a number of smaller stone pieces at the Pace Gallery...