Word: 50th
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...When you make it to the 50th, you feel almost like you've won a lottery--completely undeserved luck, but there you are," says James E. Downes '35, one of about 300 members of his class who will be at Harvard today to celebrate their "golden" reunion...
...Reagan should get such a degree, or even if he should speak at the convocation, I would have to stop making my annual contribution to Harvard, even for my 50th reunion year (1987) when I'm sure the pressure will be on to give more My annual contribution, of $50, is a pittance. Reagan's appearance probably would persuade some rich and tightest alumni to give more, so the withholding of my pittance would be only symbolic, but I would guess there would be plenty of other symbolic, and some more substantial, withdrawals of support for Harvard...
...thousands of people whose lives the organization has saved, the 50th anniversary of Alcoholics Anonymous, which will take place on June 10, commemorates one of the banner days of history. Said a member in Washington last week: "The press covered the anniversary of V-E day very heavily. Well, to a lot of people, the founding of Alcoholics Anonymous is an equivalent milestone." Small wonder. The loosely knit group, which now comprises more than 1 million people, one-third of whom are women, has firmly established itself as the most effec tive way for alcoholics to stay sober--and alive...
...during World War II, flying in combat from November, 1944, until the end of the war," Wacker says. "I'll be talking about the airplane rather than the experience." He explains that the B-17 is the "classical American bomber of World War II" and that 1985 is the 50th anniversary of Boeing's construction of the first...
...seasoned performer will tell you, never overplay an anticlimax. Ronald Reagan knows that better than most, and his second Inaugural, a four-day wingding that begins this Friday, will be quieter, more controlled and a good deal less ostentatious than his first. The Inaugural, America's 50th, is being carefully crafted by the soon-to-depart Michael Deaver and the Presidential Inaugural Committee to rein in spending and promote a new egalitarian image for the Administration. Its theme: "We the People . . . An American Celebration...