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Until this year, the waitress-served meals, which began promptly at 6 p.m., were the rule in every Radcliffe dorm. But as an economy measure this fall, only one dorm in each of the three Houses continued the tradition. The others served buffet, Harvard style, which turned out to be so popular that Cliffies grumbled about being forced to eat sit-down because of overcrowding in the buffet dining rooms...
Since then, they have put over such unlikely packages as a Christmas series of four different versions of Handel's Messiah, a "Japan Week" featuring the Toho String Orchestra (with Japanese buffet served at intermissions) and a satiric program of baroque music, P.D.Q. Bach (TIME, Jan. 7), which was so successful that it came back twice to full houses, P.D.Q...
...newly conjoined Nugents, relatives, friends and selected luminaries over 3.6 miles of public roads to the White House. Greeted by more reporters and television cameras, serenaded by the U.S. Marine Corps Band and Peter Duchin's dance orchestra, the company will sip domestic champagne, nibble at a sumptuous buffet, and attack a 300-lb., 8-ft. cake before Luci, Pat and her ever-present Secret Service escort go off on a honeymoon à trois...
...villa by Bavaria's Tegernsee, a West German industrialist recently celebrated the 18th birthday of his daughter with an intimate party for 100. The 20-ft.-long, damask-covered buffet table was laden with baked Prague ham, Alpine trout stuffed with Iranian caviar, roast venison from the Black Forest, Texas rattlesnake meat, capon breasts and small partridges on toast, Stuttgart quail, alligator soup, Strasbourg pâté de foie gras and aged black Chinese eggs. For hors d'oeuvres there were salted jasmine flowers, candied silkworms, toasted grasshoppers and grilled African honeybee. The wines were...
...changes not only improved the plane's payload, but also cured defects in its design. Tests showed that exhaust from Boeing's wing-mounted engines would buffet and overheat the tail. Designers moved the engines to the underside of an enlarged tail. That, in turn, enabled them to increase the area of the pivoting wing so that the plane could take off and land more slowly and silently. With that, said Boeing SST Engineering Director H. W. Withington last week, "Lockheed no longer has us beaten, as it thought it did last year." Replied Lockheed President Daniel...