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You can learn a lot through lectures, especially when you give them: the value of imagined gifts, the danger of unscreened questions, or even how to respond to a lovely, inquiring woman. I give about 50 lectures a year in the United States and abroad, and here are some of the things I've learned on the platform and on the road.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Oct. 21 —Knowing it had to “execute” to win, Harvard finally got its tricky multiple offense going with the efficiency of a firing squad against Cornell today.
Amer officials rept that H A Kissinger, on Oct 22, left for Cambodia after 4 days of talks in Saigon
NYSE chmn Needham article discusses his reasons for urging that insts be members of stock exchs; says his 1 proviso is that insts must function as bona fide brokers serving public; illus
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 18, 1972, covering October 22, 1972.
Curtis Mayfield
Leon Russell
The Moody Blues With The London Festival Orchestra (Knight)
Rod Stewart
Chicago
1972Saffron Burrows, English-American actress[â ]
Saffron Burrows is a British actress who has appeared in films such as Circle of Friends, Wing Commander, Deep Blue Sea, Gangster No. 1, Enigma, Troy, Reign Over Me, and The Bank Job. On the small screen she starred as Lorraine Weller on Boston Legal, Dr. Norah Skinner on My Own Worst Enemy, Detective Serena Stevens on Law & Order: Criminal Intent, and Victoria Hand on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.. She appeared as Cynthia Taylor on the Prime Video series Mozart in the Jungle and as Dottie Quinn in the Netflix series You.
1972VĂctor Saldaño, Argentine criminal[â ]
VĂctor Hugo Saldaño, aka Victor Rodriguez, is an Argentine man sentenced to death by the state of Texas. He is the sole Argentine sentenced to death in the United States.
1972James K. Baxter, New Zealand poet, writer, theologian, and social commentator. (born 1926)[â ]
James Keir Baxter was a New Zealand poet and playwright. He was also known as an activist for the preservation of MÄori culture. He is one of New Zealand's most well-known and controversial literary figures. He was a prolific writer who produced numerous poems, plays and articles in his short life, and was regarded as the preeminent writer of his generation. He suffered from alcoholism until the late 1950s. He converted to Catholicism and established a controversial commune at Jerusalem, New Zealand, in 1969. He was married to writer Jacquie Sturm.
In 1972, the world population was approximately 3,844,917,680 people[â ]