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...despite all of these credentials, Walkeraccepted an invitation from Harvard last year toplan the gala stadium concert. The former Directorof Entertainment at Disneyland says that he doesnot think of coming to Harvard as taking a stepdown. "Harvard's been so much to the nation. It'sa great honor to produce their 350th and it's achallenge because there are so many differentideas...
About 700 Harvard people will participate inthe celebration, three-quarters of whom will beHarvard students. The concert will feature theHarvard band, the Kuumba singers and the HastyPudding Theatricals Club. Jazz singer FionaAnderson '88 will perform with Don Braden's Jazzband, a student group, and with the Boston Pops.Concluding the gala event, fireworks will bedropped from a helicopter above the stadium...
Students will also have two other opportunitiesto meet the Prince, or at least see him up close:a gala 350th anniversary dinner at Memorial Hall,September 3, and the following day, a 250-personluncheon at Widener Library...
...Iron Curtain allies, Turner visited Soviet Georgia and went climbing and hunting in the distant Caucasus. He shot a mountain goat; its stuffed head is decorating his hotel suite. So far, this is Turner Broadcasting's only tangible trophy. In a unified show of indifference, except for the gala opening ceremony, Muscovites have matched American television audiences, empty seat for measly rating point. Once Turner hoped to make $20 million or $30 million on his inaugural games, but now he expects to lose $10 million or $15 million. "Moscow's just not a great sports town," Turner has decided. "Kind...
Even without the French-American gala, it would have been a busy social week for Nancy Reagan. On Sunday she and President Reagan sneaked out of the White House in an unmarked motorcade to celebrate her birthday at a Washington restaurant with two old California friends, U.S. Information Agency Director Charles Wick and his wife Mary Jane. Next day Nancy, 65, slipped away again, this time for a birthday lunch with her aides. All this privacy seeking left the Washington press corps, accustomed to at least pool coverage of the President's activities outside the White House, audibly disgruntled. Spokesman...