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...addition, organizers of the October 6-12 gala, which will cost in the neighborhood of $140,000, said the bulk of the celebration will take place in the houses, where celebrated alumni or affiliates will give symposia, dine with students or perform...
...University--which drew attention to the big Stadium gala and the officially licensed 350th product line--took steps to try to prevent the big blow-out from looking like Statue of Liberty II. One-hundred-and-six academic symposia were scheduled and cast with an array of stars from within and without the lvory Tower. Yet, on the whole, the symposia did not place much of anything, including Harvard itself, under any serious scrutiny...
...going to be just another year. The birthday party did just what parties do: explode in an enormous burst of glitz and fade just as quickly with no real legacy. There weeks from now, undergraduates will get their own weekend of celebration, but the main event--a gala ball--is sold out. While organizers are scrambling to accommodate more students, it is likely that a substantial number will be shut out from the festivities...
...wake of the assassination attempt, the imperious Pinochet, certain of his support in the 57,000-man army, staged a grand popular gala in honor of his continued tenure. In full-page newspaper ads the general dubbed the long- planned celebration, seen as a kickoff of his campaign for the presidency in 1989, "The First Day of the Future." Under the 1980 constitution drawn up by Pinochet, Chile's four-man military junta will choose a single presidential candidate, who will then run in a yes-or-no national plebiscite and, if the electorate endorses him, serve until 1997. Three...
...Harvard hauteur annoys outsiders, including, perhaps, the present White House, which last March announced that Ronald Reagan would not appear at this week's gala after Harvard made known that the President would not be given an honorary degree. This monumental snub, say critics, came from a university whose sons hold themselves in too high esteem. Secretary of Education William Bennett (J.D., '71) claims he was influenced more by Washington's Gonzaga High and Williams College than by Harvard, and doubts there is a Harvard network or indeed a Harvard point of view. "You will find Harvard...