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...American mini-blitz on behalf of their new album Give 'Em Enough Rope: ten days, seven cities, stretching from Berkeley to New York, stirring up waters that flow far too free and easy. "American audiences like music to keep you happy," observes Drummer Nicky ("Topper") Headon. "It's music for you to drive home by." "It's the most dreadful thing," Lead Guitarist Mick Jones declares scornfully. "The Aerosmiths, the Foghats, the Bostons-they've kind of signed themselves...
Enlarging athletic facilities, financing the arts, and preserving Memorial Church. The capital drive will incorporate "mini-drives" already underway for Memorial Church and the Soldiers Field athletic complex...
Preserving libraries, museums, and laboratories. The fund drive will incorporate the Fogg Museum's "mini-drive" currently underway, and will provide money for library upkeep. It also seems the Peabody Museum is slated to receive some money from the drive, after the recent controversy over the sale of a collection of paintings to pay for a conservation system for the museum's collections. The total funding for libraries and museums from the drive will amount to about $33 million...
...planned, the fund drive's large umbrella will cover not only the College Fund but all of the University's half-dozen "mini-drives" as well, excepting the campaigns for the Busch-Reisinger Museum and the Villa I Tatti, Harvard's center for Renaissance studies in Florence, neither of which appeal to traditional Harvard contributors. The mini-drives" were the mainstay of University capital fundraising throughout the '70s and effectively focused donors' attentions on specific problems--but the College's basic needs did not receive their "due attention," Reardon says...
When the first episode of Roots aired on Jan. 23, 1977, there were no signs that a phenomenon was in the making. Not only had ABC'S mini-series been dismissed in advance by many TV critics, but it had already been rated as a long shot by the programmers and admen who run network television. Up to the last minute there were plenty of commercial spots for sale on Roots. ABC itself projected only a passable 28% to 31% share of the audience for the show; CBS and NBC concurred, scheduling only routine fare against...