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First event of the week will be the traditional Baccalaureate Service at Memorial Church on June 17. President Conant will speak at the service. June 18th will bring the Senior Spread, to be held outdoors this year in the Eliot House quadrangle. Including a formal dance and a buffet supper, the Senior Spread runs from 10 p.m. to 3 a.m. and usually brings a relaxation of parietal rules for seniors...
...meeting was the committee's first since its election on March 17. Members discussed preliminary plans for senior activities during Commencement Week. The Class Day Committee's program last year included formal and informal dances, an outdoor buffet supper, and a moonlight sail in Boston Harbor...
This week Bloomington (pop. 28,000) was filled with its biggest Wagner crowd yet. Some nibbled a "Parsifal" Supper ($1 buffet) in the university dining hall; others brought their own in boxes. Then, in the university auditorium (3,788 seats), they sat back while the first sounds from the 60-piece orchestra drifted up from the pit. Onstage, they saw simple and well-lighted sets, fresh and unstilted acting...
Washington cocktail-bibbers set out for the four-story, grey stone Yugoslav embassy in delighted throngs one night last week to attend a party celebrating the sixth year of Tito's rule. It seemed certain to produce gossip. If Tito provided the sumptuous buffet usual at such affairs, the guests could not only eat well, but make ironic asides about the Yugoslav famine. If the table was bare, they could at least have the spartan pleasure of watching high U.S. officials-who had accepted in droves-struggling to be polite while hungry...
...initial stages of the party it dispensed Scotch, but this ran out quickly, leaving Martinis, slivowitz (plum brandy) and orange juice. The flow of these potions, however, was reduced to a mere dribble: the amateur bartenders ran out of glasses. The guests wheeled hungrily toward the buffet. There was no trace of the usual turkeys, Virginia hams, salmon and pâtés which capital partygoers consider their legitimate reward-only fresh-cheeked girls circulating with trays of snippets of homemade sandwiches and tiny pastries...