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...company sponsored a bash in the Freshman Union after the Harvard-Dartmouth football game, and will hold the first annual Christmas champagne ball in the Union on December 9, Bret R. Johnson '81, founder of the company, said yesterday...
...Kremlin cut back on the traditional flaunting of military hardware after city officials complained that parading armor tore up the pavement. This time 336 Soviet heavy weapons and mechanized vehicles clattered through Red Square, compared with 151 in 1976. Some of the speeches, too, were steelier. The mighty bash-televised live throughout the Soviet Union-opened with a blunt address by Defense Minister Dmitri Ustinov. Standing in subfreezing weather, with his Politburo colleagues, atop Lenin's mausoleum, Ustinov, 69, made the obligatory bow to "the struggle for peace, détente and disarmament," then launched into vigorous affirmation...
Hundreds of Harvard and Dartmouth students will be flocking to the Freshman Union tonight at 9 p.m. if Brett R. Johnson '81 gets the tremendous turn-out he is hoping for at the "First Harvard-Dartmouth Post-Game Bash...
...across state lines and persuaded the owners of a Lake Forest estate to allow filming in their home. When Director Robert Altman was filming A Wedding, for 20th Century-Fox distribution (the movie stars Mia Farrow and Geraldine Chaplin), Thompson declared a Robert Altman Week and held a big bash for the cast and crew at a Chicago disco. Which points up another advantage of attracting film makers: besides being good business, hanging out with movie people...
Vanners themselves, or at least the zealots, seem as much a cult as a fellowship. They have formed hundreds of societies. Many drive hundreds or even thousands of miles to converge with other vanners at picnicky socials that are held all over the country. Such a bash is known as a "truckin" or a "burnout" or a "push" or-ah!-a "van-go." Invariably, a key feature of the outing is the mutual admiration of vans and the adorning artwork. Some paint jobs cost $3,000. News of ever fresh extravagances circulates in 25 or so magazines devoted to vanning...