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Those students who fight back against dissenters are especially prized. In Houston, a 20-year-old Rice University graduate student, Sidney Drouilhet II, was guest of honor at a Chamber of Commerce banquet because he filed charges against three other young men for dishonoring a flag. When 150 San Diego State College students tried to half-staff a campus flag after Kent State, Bill Pierson, a 6-ft. 5-in., 250-lb. football center, held them off singlehanded for three hours and became a Horatius figure in conservative San Diego...
...Chicago convention, Mrs. Katherine Hedley of St. Louis, director of the Garden Clubs' foreign affiliates, fell backwards off a six-foot platform, breaking two bones in her foot; but she gamely recovered long enough to introduce the next speaker. The second biggest crisis occurred when the banquet waiters failed to set enough places at the head tables. Some feathers were ruffled as 15 ladies had to step down to dine at the floor-level tables. But all proceeded smoothly again through the ceremonies, when officers presented four $1,000 scholarships, Smokey Bear awards, an anti-litter trophy...
...slackening has been at dinnertime. The lunch trade is holding steady in many of the better restaurants, but even the midday period is grim in the funereal precincts of Wall Street. At Eberlin's, a financial-district favorite, volume is off 10% to 15%. For major hotels, the banquet and convention business offers slimmer pickings because companies are sending fewer people on combined business-pleasure jaunts...
These worm-eaten soldiers are sacrified on the altar of reputation. Reason is lost as it is defended: heroism is traduced as it is celebrated, Each new deed only provides a richer banquet for ravenous time- "alms for oblivion"- returning to mock the captain as he struts within the monumental mockery of unreasoning heroism...
Mike Cahalan, Eric Hanson, and Dave Silver were the award winners at last night's annual Harvard swimming banquet at the varsity Club...