Word: sponsorship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Portable Pioneer and Prairie Show, now touring the upper Midwest under the sponsorship of Minneapolis' Guthrie Theater, is much better than that. It is an honest, entertaining evocation of the lives and songs of some of the Swedish families that settled in Minnesota in the late 19th century. Singing families developed their own repertories of music and comedy. Two young New Yorkers, David Chambers and Mel Marvin, have researched the tradition of such troupes, studied their sheet music, old newspaper clippings, family photographs and journals, and distilled them into a modest Midwestern saga...
Leading the Portuguese out of their political indifference is an arduous and frustrating task. COPA has made a beginning, as have regional conferences such as the Congress of the Portuguese in America held at Harvard last year under COPA's sponsorship...
...graduate of Gregorian University in Rome with masters degrees in philosophy and theology, Healy will help students who are considering taking time off from Harvard to work or study abroad in finding outside sponsorship for their activities...
...aerial service owes its origin to Michael Wood, 54, a British-born plastic surgeon who began flying rescue missions in a second-hand light plane back in 1957. Under the sponsorship of the private, nonprofit African Medical and Research Foundation, the service now consists of eight planes, an international staff of eight physicians (two with pilots' licenses), from Denmark, Germany, France, Canada and Britain, and five non-M.D. pilots...
...increasingly certain that immunology-the study of the body's natural defenses against illness-will eventually provide the key to understanding and controlling cancer. Last week that conviction was strengthened when some 2,000 of the world's foremost medical scientists met in Manhattan under the joint sponsorship of the American Cancer Society and the National Cancer Institute to report their progress in human cancer research. Among the most recent findings...