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4 p.m.: Thursday Lecture Series -- George Huntston Williams, "The Christian Attitudes towards Nature: an Historical Assessment of the Major and a Minor Tradition and the Problem of Conservation." Emerson Hall 105.
A roughhewn go-getter of 49, Hickel was the 1938 Golden Gloves welter weight champion of Kansas and never went to college. During his 29 years in Alaska, where he arrived with 370, Hickel amassed a fortune of more than $14 million in hotels, land and natural-gas holdings. After...
"When I said I didn't believe in conservation for conservation's sake, I meant you can't just lock up something and continue to sustain its value. A man can be a genius, but if you set him aside from society, put him in a corner...
The son of Armenian immigrants who fled a Turkish massacre by cattle boat, Kerkorian was reared on a farm in California's San Joaquin Valley. He dropped out of school in the eighth grade to help the family and was signed on as a logger for $25 a month...
4 p.m.: Thursday afternoon Lecture Series--George Huntston Williams, "The Christian Attitudes towards Nature: an Historical Assessment of the Major and a Minor Tradition and the Problems of Conservation;" Emerson Hall 105. No admission charge.