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...floor of the ballroom tilts now and again--fore to aft, sometimes port to starboard. But the steps of the dancers remain steady. A diminutive 92-year-old dowager, resplendent in her pink ball gown, sparkling jewelry and a blond bouffant hairdo topped with a black velveteen bow, smiles on the arm of her young officer escort as he leads her through the traditional paces of the Gay Gordons. They are surrounded by a swirl of tuxedoes, taffeta and tiaras--a time warp on the water aboard the grandest dame of them all, the British ocean liner Queen Elizabeth...
...last week, the council approved a policy order calling for the development of an annual town- gown report on relations between the city and Cambridge's universities...
...Rudenstine has endorsed a co-educational policy for the cast of the Hasty Pudding Theatricals (News, May 15). Apparently, President Rudenstine does not realize that the Theatricals are drag shows. A drag show is based upon the simple principle that a 6-foot-tall blonde in an evening gown with a five-o'clock shadow is funny...
Galluccio, however, says that through meetings such as the one he had with Rudenstine last week, he is trying to strengthen town-gown relations as best...
...Cambridge City Council passed an order supporting a living wage of a minimum $10 hourly salary for all Harvard employees at its meeting last night and threatened that town-gown relations may become strained unless the University acts soon...