Word: provost
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rent was due in New York and in Lombard. Educational Testing Service was demanding payment on its $200,000 loan. Gould resigned as institute president last month (although he remains a trustee), and at an emergency meeting Lowther was thrown off the board. Lawrence E. Dennis, 54, former provost of the Massachusetts state college system, was named treasurer and acting president. Dennis estimates that the institute is at least $500,000 in debt and may have to shut down at the end of the month. Meanwhile, the Lowthers have brazenly filed a bankruptcy suit against the institute, claiming that...
...ever going to disappear is Soviet covert activities of a political nature. To say détente stops them is grossly naive." Thus Bundy argues that the U.S. should not be precluded from covert actions, but should not use such actions as extensively as in the 1950s. Bowdoin College Provost Olin Robinson, an authority on intelligence organizations in democratic societies, agrees: "Unless you've got a cast of world characters who are willing to play by a certain set of rules, you're going to have covert operations." In other words, the CIA should be left the capacity for covert action...
...problem is Holy Cross. What is known is that the Crusaders are an opportunistic team, as last week's nooffense, 45-point win shows. The matchup between All-Americans Pat McInally and John Provost (four interceptions last week) could hold...
...Another reason why this game is so important to me is that Jean Provost, who made four interceptions last week against Brown and was named National Back of the Week, was third team All-American last year for Holy Cross. So you know that the scouts will be watching that game...
...Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Monetary Affairs under Lyndon Johnson. The author of The Economics of Interdependence, he has a suitably international background: born in Seattle, he grew up in Germany, was educated at Oberlin, the London School of Economics and Harvard. Named Yale's provost in 1972, he helped ease the financially hard-pressed university out of the red this year...