Word: attendence
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When I entered college some 25 years ago, just about 85 per cent of all blacks attending college were enrolled at Negro colleges. Today this situation is reversed--some 80 per cent of blacks in college attend white colleges...
...grating to Republican Devine because the President had been making a virtual family project of unseating him in next month's elections. Carter and Rosalynn had both gone to Ohio to speak against Devine, and Miss Lillian was scheduled to campaign there too until she was diverted to attend the Pope's funeral. So Devine was noncommittal to Carter. "I let him know that it was not a consistent position to ask for my support when he was doing everything to get me out of Congress," Devine said later. Yet when the hour came, he voted to sustain...
...historic visit to Jerusalem. Some Israeli officials claim now that 98% of the issues to be discussed have already been resolved. Sadat, praising President Carter as a leader "who changed the face of history from bitterness to love and from war to peace," invited his Camp David host to attend the treaty signing. The President immediately accepted, although one of the matters still to be decided is where the event will take place...
...stately rites that had been held for Pope Paul VI eight weeks ago. They kept to an open-air Mass in St. Peter's Square, despite the virtual certainty of rain, so as not to disappoint the more than 50,000 people who, rain or shine, desired to attend. At one point during the Requiem, a downpour drenched the solitary coffin, and aides rushed up with umbrellas to shield the 90 white-mitered Cardinals...
Despite Carter's absence, the dedication ceremonies for the Kennedy School of Government will not lack luminaries, political or otherwise. Dukakis, Sen. Edward Kennedy '54 (D-Mass), House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill (D-Mass) and Jacqueline Onassis will attend the two-day celebration. Arthur Fiedler, conductor of the Boston Pops, will conduct the Harvard University Band...