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...Under grey skies and with fall's academic feeling in the air, thousands of alumni went back to class yesterday...
President Derek C. Bok and Chairman of the 350th Commission Francis H. Burr '35 and their spouses met Charles on the steps of Memorial Hall yesterday at 7:45 p.m. as he pulled up in a grey Rolls Royce. After the five filed into Memorial Hall, a bagpiper played as the remaining 400 or so dignitaries, prominent Harvard faculty and administrators entered the building...
About 40 people waited in vain on the curb ofKirkland St. in back of Memorial Hall in anattempt to catch a glimpse of the Prince as hiscar pulled up to the 350th dinner there. Charlesexited from the grey Rolls Royce and was ushereddirectly onto the steps of the building...
When the door to the plane opens, however, silence falls over the crowd. About five people disembark before he steps through the doorway, sporting a double-breasted grey suit and a tan. As the crowd watches in quiet respect, he greets Governor Michael S. Dukakis and his other distinguished hosts. The Prince listens politely to the band perform and walks to the waiting crowd where he stops to chat with a few people. One girl can't stop smiling after she curtseys. Another woman acts casual while in conversation, but after is agog at what has just happened...
...societal problem at the focus, and in the background of this film is poverty, rendered with realistic ambiguity, by means of shots of grey streets, shabby clothing, and simple clowning of street kids. The film makes no didactic statement about the evils of poverty, but shows us its results, good and bad, through the actions of Pat and Madjid...