Word: attending
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Park area of Los Angeles, and have been spending the summer on an even more exclusive island in Newport Beach, Calif., where his wife's family has a New England-style residence. Although he has dropped out of the Big Canyon Country Club, he and his wife occasionally attend private parties. Friends say that Haldeman's ordeal has tapped new strengths and vitality and he is bearing up with Christian Scientist calm. He takes tennis lessons and plucks away at the guitar...
...Plans. The U.S. contribution has been to affirm that bilateral relations between OAS members and Cuba are essentially private affairs. If the treaty amendment passes, the U.S. is ready to attend a second OAS meeting where members will consider a resolution releasing them from their obligations under the embargo. The U.S. will support the resolution, in effect accomplishing what was not done at Quito: lifting the ban by a two-thirds vote. (Reason for another meeting: without it, the Rio Treaty amendment would have to be ratified individually by member states, a process that could take years.) Then, said...
They are no overnight sensation, however. The grueling roadhouse gigs, dusty motel rooms and endless turnpike tours that attend the birth of almost every pop-music career merge in the show-business lexicon under the heading "dues paying." Hardly anyone escapes, least of all black rhythm and blues performers. This Georgia-born quartet spent nearly two decades in obscurity before finally scuffling into the big time...
...People attend the programs for different reasons. Both colleges are open to all alumni of the University and to non-alumni who are interested in the subjects offered. Harvard has found that more participants come from the fields of business or education than any other career categories, but, as Shultz points out, those are the two most widely chosen careers for Harvard alumni. About 30 per cent of the participants have been to other Harvard alumni colleges, with some people returning year-after year. The Radcliffe program is too new to really know where its market lies, Downey says...
...finding ways to attract a broader group. "We mainly get middle-aged to older alumni, between the classes of '40 and '50." Anway says, although they get alumni from both extremes as well some come with their babies, she says, and Helen J. Almy '05 says she plans to attend this week's session on Soviet Russia "unless I feel too old by the time it starts." Younger alumni find it hard to leave their children and jobs and often can't afford the trip to Cambridge...