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William Lewis '79, a second-year Viking, said yesterday's banquet "corresponds with traditional harvest festivals in which Norwegian people would build up spirit to maintain themselves throughout long and cold winters...
...typical day in the zone: freighters pass through its harbor; Army wives shop at supermarkets; the Governor meets with the press. Wiseman is especially fascinated by the community's many patriotic ceremonies. Whether the Zonians are at church or on the tennis court or out for a banquet, they are forever pledging and singing their allegiance to the flag with the fervor of high school students at a pep rally...
...reason for their trip: a match with the Chinese national soccer squad. Alas for the Cosmos, the Chinese tied the first game and won the second 2-1. "We did not expect to find soccer of this caliber in China," conceded Cosmos Captain Werner Roth. But at a welcoming banquet, the mood was jovial, and the Chinese players eagerly pumped their visitors about AstroTurf and the height of buildings in Manhattan. The curious Chinese will soon find out for themselves. They arrive for a five-game U.S. tour next week and are scheduled to play the Cosmos...
Director Peter Hall, who is head of the National Theater, has staged the play as if he were giving a great banquet in St. Mark's Square. Indeed, Hall's Volpone takes all of three hours and includes a funny but rarely played subplot involving two early English tourists, Sir Politic and Lady Wouldbe...
...hours, while Foreign Minister Huang sat impassively and other Chinese officials scribbled notes but asked no questions. Vance talked only about international affairs, emphasizing the areas in which Washington and Peking had common interests, but postponing the matter of Taiwan. That night, at a deliberately low-keyed banquet, Huang noted in a gloomy toast that there were "still problems" between the two countries...