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...compared to the Democratic meeting (or past G.O.P. conventions), it was. There were no fights, no cliff-hanging situations. With hardly a discordant tock to its tick, it ran off with multi-jewel precision. At the flick of a hand from Hollywood's George Murphy, the convention entertainment director, singers of all shapes and sizes appeared to entertain the delegates. At the drop of a G.O.P. hero's name, sign-toting Young Republicans in varsity sweaters snake-danced down Cow Palace aisles like half time at College Stadium. At the rap of a gavel from Permanent Chairman...
...took it on a nonprofit basis. London-born Staffer Don Cash, 46, was assigned to produce and direct it, NBC Washington Correspondent Joseph C. Harsch to do the narration. Said Cash, an old and practiced British movie hand: "We quickly decided that the best way to inform is to entertain. That meant that each subject would be taken seriously, but treated lightheartedly. The two things we aim to avoid are bragging and lecturing. What we're really after is to put each documentary in the form of a story highlighted with humor and drama so that viewers will...
This evening from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. women in the secretarial and publishing procedure courses at Radcliffe will entertain men from the Harvard Summer School in Cabot Hall. There will be informal gathering in the living room and dancing in the recreation room...
Normally there are certain prescribed hours when grads may entertain female guests in their rooms. However, Summer School males are not this fortunate, and therefore, rather than let the summer students in James Hall live under the graduate rules, the reverse has been done...
...their own entry-way or at least in the same building, have a unique chance to develop the informal relationships that neither Martin nor Hanson can easily achieve. The topics that come up in easy dormitory relations--where to buy an overcoat, how to select courses, where to entertain a date, how to solve academic difficulties or how to find a purpose in a college education--can run the gamut, depending entirely on which way the student steers the course. And, as one adviser said, "I've never given any so-called advice during office hours...