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Because of the snow the hoopsters' afternoon flight to Philadelphia was rerouted to Newark where a convoy of Princeton athletic officials came in stationwagons to pick them up so they could get to Jadwin...
...charter has been removed from the archives for every Harvard president's inauguration although sometimes this maneuver can be tricky. In 1971, when President Bok was sworn into office. Holden and a convoy of University officials had to escort the document to University Hall via underground steam tunnels, out of fear that student protestors might damage the relic. (The mood of students at the inauguration proved so congenial, Holden recalls, that he made the return trip above ground...
MacGraw became a star with her first two movies, Goodbye, Columbus (1969) and Love Story (1971), then dropped out of the business during her marriage to the late Steve McQueen. In the late 1970s, she returned to do such pictures as Convoy, Players and Just Tell Me What You Want, the first two critical failures and the last a box-office flop. The Winds of War may be a turning point in her career, for better or for worse. "Whatever way it goes, it will be rather decisive," she says, "and that's a horrible pressure...
...staring at microfilm, I got home and turned on the TV to watch "the second day of racial unrest in Miami." The crowds of Blacks protesting the killing of Johnson had been largely dispersed. Men wearing gas masks ran around with rifles, lobbing gas grenades. Helicopters circled overhead. A convoy of jeeps rolled down the street. The Newsface came on and reported. "President Reagan said today that there is no room for violence in the streets of America." You could picture him saying the words. It was almost funny...
...become inextricably linked with the word Solidarity. For three days, hundreds of supporters kept a vigil beneath the second-story window of his apartment block on the outskirts of Gdansk. Suddenly, late in the evening, an excited murmur spread through the milling crowd. Before the convoy of four cars could pull to a stop, it was mobbed by surging onlookers who struck up the chant, "Leszek, Leszek." At the center of the commotion was a familiar figure with a drooping mustache. Looking noticeably more rotund, Walesa, 39, had come home...