Word: alie
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Peter Carfagna '75, a member of the Class Day Committee, said last night that Muhammud had called the committee yesterday afternoon with the news that Ali probably would not speak...
Although Wilson's Panglossian performance was undoubtedly intended to tranquilize the national case of nerves, it created more anxieties than it allayed. Press reaction ranged from mild ridicule to outright contempt. Said the Daily Express: "Mr. Wilson is no white man's Muhammad Ali. Instead he floats like a bee and stings like a butterfly...
...whole subject of an honorary degree is still very much up in the air, and I would say that Ali's manager just jumped the gun in announcing it," he said...
Carfagna said that he thought Ali was a "good choice" for Class Day speaker...
This was strikingly evident in Danang, held by the Communists for five weeks. French Reporter Roland-Pierre Paringaux cabled to TIME after visiting the city last week: "The foreign observer immediately notices the amazement of the young revolutionary soldiers who look like hillbillies in front of an Ali Baba cave that still spews diverse riches and gadgets from an essentially American and Japanese consumer society. Drab, in uniform without decorations or grade, shod in rubber-thonged sandals, they are visibly astonished by these elegant, made-up young women, by these people their age astride Hondas. Also incredulous are the people...