Word: santas
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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DIED. Richard G. Drew, 81, Minnesota-born inventor who in 1930, as a laboratory assistant for what is now the 3M Co., combined a glue and glycerin stickum with a strip of transparent cellophane to form Scotch tape; in Santa Barbara, Calif...
...after the murders, according to the report, a priest near the village of Santa Rita Almendros was told by several peasants that they had been ordered by some National Police and local civil guardsmen to bury the bodies of four American women. Informed of this through the office of San Salvador's acting Archbishop Rivera y Damas, Ambassador White drove to the village about 30 miles east of the capital. There the bodies of the victims were found in an unmarked grave...
...Radcliffe Forum? our cap-and-gown stand? Whatever it is they're asking, whatever it is they want You tell them that I'll grant it--unless, that is, I can't. I've had the strangest dream last night, a dream of dire import; Ronald Reagan had become Santa Claus--or so it was, I thought. If the world can turn that topsy-turvy, then I can alter too. I've learned my Christmas lesson--my amoral days are through. Besides, the way things are looking, a promise won't have much effect: There won't be enough...
...ultimate box is the product of Dr. Sven-Olof Lidholm, who had the idea for it 15 years ago while identifying victims of an airplane accident in Santa Cruz de Tenerife in the Canary Islands. It weighs 60 Ibs., about half as much as a wooden casket, but supports a weight of 800 lbs. Lidholm says that the cardboard one would be particularly useful after natural disasters. In southern Italy, many survivors of last month's earthquake were forced to bury relatives in coffins bought on the black market at high prices...
...NOTEBOOK: Junior Gwen Gorman was serenaded in the middle of the meet by two flutists playing Christmas carols--a present from her Kirkland House Secret Santa... The Harvard Women's Swim Team Fan Club made its first appearance of the season and unfurled a large pink banner that read, "The Harvard Women's Swim Team Performs Better On Their Backs"... Master and Mrs. Vogt of Kirkland House came to the meet to cheer on the plethora of team members who reside in K. House...