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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...expect "Plaza Suite," or even "Pi Eta Suite," but do try to see Overtures in Asia Minor, the 1979 Hasty Pudding offering. This year's showcase of lousy puns and a male kickline deals with spies in Near East opium dens and a butler who, quoting T.S. Eliot, foils a dastardly scheme to prevent forever Anglo-Saxon morality. Or something like that. The plot doesn't really matter, with all those sumptuous sets and gorgeous costumes and knock-out numbers. And those legs. At the Hasty Pudding Theater (would any decent place house this show...
Finally, it's here. March 1, 1979. The date that has been tucked away in the back of every East Coast swimming fanatic's mind since the beginning of the training season in October...
...Kennedy and Johnson foundered in Vietnam, and Henry Kissinger sought a vague and cynical "stable structure of peace." So far, Jimmy Carter's conception of foreign policy has been elusive and inconsistent: he first tried "linkage" and strong human rights pronouncements. He then invited the Soviets into the Middle East peace process, and later shifted back to confrontation by criticizing Soviet moves in Africa and Asia, and normalizing relations with China. Carter has alternately courted and menaced the Russians, which has left observers at home and abroad--as well as in Moscow, no doubt--a bit confused...
With reference to Harutunian's clashes with the director, Zivkovic said, "He never likes the directors they send to Yale, either. There is no difference between his behavior here and there. He's the one who's been singled out (for criticism) by the East Coast Fencing Association. It's on the record...
...think it would be a particularly interesting time for Horner and the others to visit China in light of the recent Chinese invasion of Vietnam," Albert M. Craig, associate director of the East Asian Research Center, said yesterday, adding that the group's visit will be "one more step" toward normalizing Chinese-American relations...