Word: entertainers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week's end, Manhattan had found little cause to grumble about the Shriner invasion. The nobles had spent freely on liquor, nightclubs and souvenirs, but had remained the orderly, decent citizens they are back home. In between the public displays of high jinks, the Shriners found time to entertain children in hospitals, mounted an eight-hour display-cum-parade at Shea Stadium, where some 30,000 spectators shelled out $2 to watch wheeling formations of huge men driving miniature cars and a motorized ferris wheel that dunked its four riders in an oversize tub of soapy water every twelve...
...Bonn families keep strictly to themselves; so do the town's 13,000 university students and faculty members. New Bonners, as they call the 521 Bundestag members and 12,150 federal employees, usually go to Cologne or Coblenz for amusement. Most U.S. diplomats and journalists live and entertain each other in Bad Godesberg, Bonn's picturesque neighbor, where the American colony is known variously as the Ghetto, the Compound or Westchester-on-Rhine...
...part of Harvard, the HRO has a responsibility to educate its members and its listeners, not just to entertain them. I hope that next year the officers of the HRO will urge this responsibility so forcefully on their new conductor that we will have less safe and worthless programs...
...Editor's Note: With this column, the CRIMSON inaugurates a series of diverting articles to entertain and enlighten Harvard students during reading and exam periods. Twice each week from now until the end of the term, "Here and Other Places" will provide earlymorning escape from the tedium of studies. In the first installment we present a preview of subjects to be treated in weeks to come...
...freshman Senator in 1949. Opposing a proposed Fair Employment Practices Commission, the young Senator Johnson had argued that "such a law would necessitate a system of federal police officers such as we have never before seen," and that he hoped "the Senate will never be called upon to entertain seriously any such proposal again." Texas Republican John Tower rose to laud L.B.J.'s ancient statement as "one of the most succinct and pointed arguments that I have ever heard...