Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Several small planes circled above The Stadium during The Game Saturday afternoon carrying banners advertising everything from Chinese food in Newton to birthday wishes for loved ones. But only one banner, paid for by the Harvard University Police Association (HUPA), advocated a political message...
...resonance of the Golden Gate Bridge, its famous sister across the water to the west. And even though the Bay Bridge is six months older and, at 8 1/4 miles, almost four times as long as its glamorous relative, the span received only small change to celebrate its 50th birthday: $70,000, vs. a projected $6 million to be lavished on the Golden Gate next May. Still, the connection between the San Francisco peninsula and the East Bay, crossed by 250,000 autos a day, helped transform once distant rural areas into bustling commuter suburbs. In 1985 the San Francisco...
...League football celebrates its 30th birthday this week...
These are also problems, of course, at other campuses around the country. It would be wrong, though, to think that Nader is picking on Harvard by focusing his efforts in Cambridge. The media coverage of the 350th birthday celebration in September demonstrated that events at Harvard command attention in the public eye. If Nader can acomplish some good at Harvard, odds are his efforts will pay off elsewhere, as well...
...time for one last centennial dance with Miss Liberty. Despite the bursting-in-air celebration on July 4, her actual birthday came last week. The threeday after-party party included a ceremony saluting Americans of varied ethnic backgrounds that were not all acknowledged in July. Among the 80 honorees: Joe DiMaggio, Muhammad Ali and Barbara Walters. Next day a glittering concert and dinner dance at New York City's Lincoln Center featured Charles Aznavour, Julio Iglesias, Placido Domingo and the premiere of a new cantata by Composer William Schuman. When all was conclusively said and exhaustively done, the Statue...