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Kirkland House is a good place to be again on Saturday as oboe virtuoso Steven Hammer returns to Harvard, and on Sunday, Adams House gets into the act with the Fine Arts Trio on a performance of Schubert's Bb Piano Trio, one of my favorites...
Most indignant of all were some 350 labor leaders of the AFL-CIO, who met in a Washington summit to hammer out their own economic plan. In a characteristically colorful diatribe, AFL-CIO President George Meany called the President's program "disastrous, the weirdest one I have ever seen." He drew the loudest applause when he attacked the oil-producing Arab nations along with Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. "Kissinger had a new quotation for the history books: 'Pay.' And pay we did, and we will continue to pay until the U.S. deals with the blackmailers...
Both the trades council and employees representatives association contracts are for only one year--so in October or November the smiling will stop, the threats will begin and the University will have to hammer out its two biggest union contracts all over again...
...Holy Door of St. Peter's Basilica, reserved for the rare event, had been walled up for a quarter of a century. Just before midnight on Christmas Eve, Pope Paul VI stood before it and tapped it three times with a silver hammer. With that, workmen lowered the massive door on pulleys, chunks of broken masonry fell, and prelates washed the threshold and doorposts. After a prayer, Paul walked through the doorway into St. Peter's as cardinals, bishops, nuns, priests and lay people streamed in behind him. The Holy Year of 1975, with its theme of "renewal...
Shero's critics charge that he sends his men onto the ice looking for a fight. Opponents point to the presence of three "enforcers" in the Flyer lineup-Defense Man Andre ("Moose") Dupont and Wings Bob ("the Hound") Kelly and Dave ("the Hammer") Shultz. That trio seem to swing more at opponents than at the puck. Shultz set a league record of his own last season by occupying the penalty box for 348 minutes, the equivalent of almost six full games. (This year may be worse. He already has accumulated more than 200 penalty minutes...