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Even without the French-American gala, it would have been a busy social week for Nancy Reagan. On Sunday she and President Reagan sneaked out of the White House in an unmarked motorcade to celebrate her birthday at a Washington restaurant with two old California friends, U.S. Information Agency Director Charles Wick and his wife Mary Jane. Next day Nancy, 65, slipped away again, this time for a birthday lunch with her aides. All this privacy seeking left the Washington press corps, accustomed to at least pool coverage of the President's activities outside the White House, audibly disgruntled. Spokesman...
Absent from the ceremony were the Israeli, Yugoslav and U.S. ambassadors. Israel withdrew its ambassador when Waldheim was elected. U.S. Ambassador Ronald Lauder was attending his mother's birthday party in Paris...
...century is nothing to sneeze at, but when one stops to consider that Harvard had already been around for 250 years when the statue was beginning to take shape in New York harbor, the enormity of our upcoming birthday starts to hit home. Apart from being a time for celebrations and congratulations, anniversaries are particularly well-suited for taking stock of strengths and weaknesses...
...Statue quietly celebrated it's 50th anniversary. No fireworks, no high gloss hoopla. There wasn't much to celebrate really, 1936 not being a banner year for world liberty. The birthday was tactfully forgotten...
This was hardly the case with Harvard's birthday, however. Student representatives from over 30 universities from around the world were invited to come and join in the festivities in Cambridge. Dignitaries from Cambridge, Oxford and Paris's Sorbonne looked on at the Convocation like mature, experienced older siblings watching as a younger child abandoned its tottering baby steps and broke into a strong...