Word: burr
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...difference that Reagan's failure to attend will make, though, is in the Celebration's security budget. If Reagan had attended, Burr says, security would have been ultra tight, and spectators may have had to enter the Yard through metal detectors like those found in ariports. As it is, with Prince Charles and other dignitaries expected, security will be the most costly item in the 350th budget...
...With all the recent terrorist activity, the most expensive thing will be security," Burr says, adding that, "Prince Charles is an obvious target for some groups...
...350th, for all its hoopla, will not match the grandeur and extravagance of the 300th, organizers insist. "We won't blow our trumpet quite as hard," says Burr...
...case, at the close of 1936's three-day event, President Conant proposed, and the gathering unanimously approved, a motion adjourning the celebration until "the eighteenth of September, 2036." But 50 years short of that date, Harvard is preparing to strike up the band and celebrate, in Burr's words, "350 years of education in America and Harvard's role...
...those who have worked with him putting together the Crimson's big birthday bash see Stephenson's role a little differently. "If you want details Steve Stephenson is the man to see. He tackles the nitty-gritty details of the job," says Francis H. Burr '35, former senior fellow of the Corporation and one of the ceremony's chief organizers...