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Because this year's Harvard Commencement coincides with the 100th anniversary of Ulysses S. Grant's inauguration, speculation about potential honorary degree recipients has been especially keen...
Time for Composing. As for Bernstein, he flies off this week to conduct Beethoven's Missa Solemnis for the 100th anniversary of the Vienna State Opera, "and that will be the end of my conducting until 1970." The new time found will be for composing. He will confer with Italian Director Franco Zeffirelli about a joint project - "almost a sort of filmed opera" - and he has a commission to do a musical theater work for the opening of Washington's Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in the fall...
Baseball's 100th year began when Nixon lobbed out the first ball after the traditional chatting and joking with Williams in the Presidential box before the game. The fans seemed more excited about the new Washington manager however, and Williams received a standing ovation that exceed the applause for Nixon when he took the field before the game...
...poisons in dozens of industries. Almost singlehanded, Dr. Alice drew state and federal attention to the horrors, aroused public indignation and campaigned across the nation until-finally-a body of laws was passed to protect workers. Last week the good doctor, now grown fragile with age, observed her 100th birthday amid family and friends at her home in Hadlyme, Conn. The U.S., she believes, is a much better country now than when she began her crusade. "It has shed many injustices, much blindness, ignorance, arrogance, even ruthlessness." If that is true, she shares the credit...
...Crimson win, as they should, it will be the first time since 1913 that a Harvard football team has remained undefeated for its first eight games. The win would also give Coach John Yovicsin the 100th victory of his 16-year college coaching career...