Word: addresses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carol Bellamy, president of the New York City Council, will deliver the Commencement address at the Kennedy School of Government tomorrow...
...began his commencement address last week at Boston University, Senator Edward Kennedy announced that he was going to refrain from needling any presidents, either Jimmy Carter, whom he has criticized frequently, or the controversial John Silber, head of the university. "It is hard enough being a president these days. At least that is what I am told," bellowed the senior Senator from Massachusetts. "I, of course, don't have any firsthand experience at it." He paused a few seconds as the silent audience waited. Then he added what they all suspected he would: "Yet!" The crowd erupted with...
...Supreme Judicial Court will now have to develop a balancing test to determine when the individual's right to privacy outweighs the state's interest in preserving the sanctity of human life. And the court must once again address the prickly question, who should pull the plug? Should the court provide doctors a guideline for dealing with patients who refuse treatment, or should it require adjudication of all right-to-die cases? The court's answer could lead to another stormy chapter in the effort to resolve the dilemma that Karen Ann Quinlan first triggered...
...party's-almost-over sadness goes with the smell of coffee and fresh biscuits at the morning mail call these days as the first year draws to an end. When an envelope bears the old university's return address, it gets handled like a ticking bomb. Groans go up from the Greek chorus at letters beginning, "When you return in September, you will be serving on the following committees . . ." As if having a last fling, William Leuchtenburg, professor of American history at Columbia, is playing hooky from his book about Franklin Roosevelt and the Supreme Court...
...member parliament. The royal couple then trudged through a May Day sleet storm to the 125-year-old Godthaab church for a short Lutheran service. After a Danish patrol boat boomed a 21-gun salute, Margrethe told Greenland's 50,000 people in a brief radio address that "you now hold the future in your own hands...