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...Harvard University Band is having its 55th birthday party this weekend, and over 200 alumni bandsmen and their families are returning to Cambridge to join in the celebration...
...NCAA- and NAIA-sponsored senior hoopla. Outside of Providence's Marvin Barnes (seventh in the East with 41,820 votes), he is the leading New Englander, a good 10,000 votes ahead of B.C.'s Dan Kulcullen (50th), Holy Cross's Malcolm Moulton (53rd), Dartmouth's Bill Raynor (55th), UMass's Al Skinner (57th) and B.U.'s Kenny Boyd (62nd...
...Altos, Calif., wrote the Alumni Magazine to say that he was all for the controversial decision and Actress Shirley MacLaine was the sort of woman he hoped would enroll. Moreover, he added jokingly, he'd be honored if Shirley would guide his wheelchair at his 55th reunion. When Fish turned up at Hanover, N.H., with the class of '18, who should be getting an honorary doctorate but Shirley MacLaine. Fish observed after she had wheeled him around: "A gallant lady...
...answer from Ceauşescu has been an increasingly autocratic rule and the nourishing of a personality cult. For two weeks before Ceauşescu's 55th birthday in January, the entire government press became a giant birthday card with Comrade pictures and Ceauşescu." greetings to "beloved Congratulatory messages were actively solicited, and in they poured, including salutations from Richard Nixon, Willy Brandt and Mao Tse-tung. The personality cult has extended to Ceauşescu's wife Elena, director of a chemical research institute. At her husband's instigation, she was elected...
Finland has long winters (the ice sometimes lasts until May), long one-word palindromes (up to 15 letters) and long political arguments (it took four months to form a government after the 1970 election). By contrast, Finnish Cabinets themselves are exceedingly short-lived: the 55th in 54 years of independence was dissolved last October by President Urho Kekkonen, who himself has remained in power since 1956. Kekkonen acted primarily because the center-left coalition incumbents could not solve a row over lagging farm incomes...