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...Mercer University, where he appeared to help observe both the 100th anniversary of the law school and the 90th birthday of former Congressman Carl Vinson, a small group of protesters detracted little from the President's rousing reception. Nixon's only reference to his troubles was a typical football analogy: "I followed the Falcons, and I guess you would call them the comeback team of 1973," he said. "They lost their first three and they have won their last six. I ought to have a talk with Norm Van Brocklin [the Atlanta Falcons coach] and find...
...League title, the pride of myriad alumni, and the hopes of two football squads will be at stake this Saturday when the Crimson from Harvard invade the Yale Bowl to play the Bulldogs in the 90th renewal of their annual confrontation...
Mayman, who last year served as Bryn Mawr's acting director of admissions, said that the only job she has had that compares with her current post was the work she did with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in preparing for its 90th anniversary celebration...
...Agon. That masterpieces resulted anyway was amply proved last week as the New York City Ballet staged one of the cultural, or craftsmanlike, events of the decade. Billed as a Stravinsky Festival, the weeklong affair was nominally in honor of what would have been Stravinsky's 90th birthday. But the festival-featuring 3 1 ballets, of which 21 were world premières, set to Stravinsky's music-was also a celebration of the greatest single creative partnership in the history of ballet. It had its start when the two Russian émigrés were brought together...
That event, however, seems a remote calamity. As he celebrated his 90th birthday and the publication of his 90th-odd book last week, Pelham Grenville Wodehouse-known as "Plum" to his friends and "Plummie" to Ethel, his wife of 57 years-was still in good form, working on a new novel and surrounded by the inevitable dogs and cats in his house at Remsenburg, a serene little town on Long Island's south shore...