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More than 200 students from Stanford, the University of Chicago, and all the Ivy League colleges attended the four-day conference. At the final session, the delegates voted to accept the Third World Committee's criticism of the conference...
More than 60 museum curators and law-enforcement officials gathered in Newark, Del., last week for a four-day conference on art thefts. They met with a sense of urgency. Only two days earlier, New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art had experienced the first major theft in its 110-year history. A 2,500-year-old Greek marble head valued at $150,000 had been wrenched from its five-foot wooden base and smuggled out of the building in daylight...
...four-day conference will consider student input into universities' policies and compare specific programs such as foreign study, meal plans, and affirmative action at all of the participating colleges. "We want to put Harvard's programs and policies in perspective and see what we're doing differently from other schools," Mark J. Shlomchik '81, co-chairman of the Harvard delegation, said this week...
...rooms of it, on the southern side of Gramercy Park, that most Jamesian of Manhattan's squares, and last week it was proceeding, slowly and irreversibly, to come apart, as the photographers, appraisers and people from Sotheby Parke Bernet moved through it, checking and cataloguing, preparing the four-day auction that in June will scatter the mansion's contents for good. What had been the background to a life had already acquired a museum glaze; the invidious perfection of the showroom lay, like a cold sheet of plastic, on every tabletop and drawing. Its memory circuits had been...
...time Teng rates the complete ceremonial treatment. He is to spend at least five hours with President Carter during three sessions at the White House. He meets tout Washington in a dizzying three-day whirl of breakfasts and banquets, sightseeing tours and working lunches. He then embarks on a four-day cross-country fiesta that offers him additional fetes, factory tours, press conferences and even barbecue and wild West shows?plus an unequaled public forum for airing China's views...