Word: bloom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Paying Up. The bride's mother and father shelled out for the Zhivago wingding, but--fretful parents everywhere, take heart--such a practice has become modified of late, especially as couples getting married tend to be a little older and already established. Says Rita Bloom Smith, president of a wedding consultancy firm in Kensington, Md.: "No woman today past 25 is going to let < someone else run that show." Vincent Landano, 28, who married Maria Castellano, 24, in Brooklyn on May 31, dug into his own pocket to pay for the proceedings--including a vase of swimming goldfish to decorate...
...senior year the Class of '61 was up in arms. "We were being cheated out of a birthright," says Peter J. Bloom '61, an international development expert. Bloom banded together with 4000 other Harvard students to place his life on the line in the face of Cambridge police. They blocked traffic on Memorial Drive and hurled firecrackers and eggs. The police retaliated with tear gas and made six arrests. Luckily, someone was on hand to supply the vicious mob with ice cream cones. All in the name of Latin diplomas...
...Kennedy-Nixon race started the class thinking about real problems, says Bloom. "Up to that point we didn't talk of world issues. "We were placid and dormant," Bloom says. Kennedy changed that...
...established the Peace Corps, the Alliance for Progress, and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), programs which "captured a notion of idealism," says says Daniel J. Givelber '61, now the dean ofNortheastern Law School. At the same time thesegroups provided "a constructive way" to deal withworld problems, says Bloom, who worked in Africafor 20 years for USAID and now heads itsAfrican-Asian division...
...Bloom did slip up once. With just two days rest after his MIT victory, he pitched three innings of relief and gave up four runs and four hits. He took the loss...