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Johnson said the trustees decided on the day of the award banquet that the University already had enough money in its scholarship fund and that undergraduate organizations needed more support...
...University has the original $50,000 presented at the banquet and will receive the additional $10,000 from the Lampoon within two or three weeks, Johnson said...
That command-shouted in 1876 by Alexander Graham Bell and heard in another room by his assistant, Thomas Watson, over Bell's first working telephone, was repeated in Boston last week. The occasion: an American Telephone and Telegraph banquet commemorating the 100th anniversary of the telephone. To demonstrate a century of progress, the teen-age descendants of Bell and Watson who re-enacted the historic moment then placed a call that was transmitted between two modern telephones not by electrical current or radio waves but by a beam of light passing through a hair-thin glass fiber. Proclaimed
...women's luck went from bad to worse at that point. While driving back from a banquet on Friday night, coach Tolnai, Linsley, and the men's manager, "Rocky," made a wrong turn and found themselves embedded in a snowdrift and stuck in the car. After extracting themselves, they spent the other half of the night in a farmhouse...
...their visit to the Soviet Union in 1972. Romanov is a regular guest at Drakestein (the couple's chateau). German-born Claus, who once served in Hitler's army, has been labeled the "Red Feldwebel" (sergeant) by Conservatives and supporters of Prince Bernhard. At a recent diplomatic banquet in The Hague, Beatrix was overheard scolding a foreign diplomat for his snide remarks about the Soviets' disastrous grain harvest. "Why," she said, "should one always emphasize the Soviet Union's shortcomings...