Word: holidayers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Their tour of Harvard completed, the Belgians boarded charter buses for the Somerville Holiday Inn, which Felicie called "luxurious." They will hit Canada tomorrow...
...grim contrast to its publicity brochures, Beirut's 26-floor Holiday Inn last week was more a nightmare than a dream come true. The only visitors lingering in the shell-pocked, fire-scorched tower beside the Mediterranean were alternating bands of Christian militiamen trying to hold their hotel stronghold and Moslem fighters intent on blasting them out with rockets and tanks. The Christian Phalangists lost the hotel, won it back briefly, then lost it for good as Moslem riflemen stormed into the shattered lobby, fought their way up from floor to floor and savagely tossed the body...
...battle of the Holiday Inn was typical of the bloody skirmishing in Beirut last week as the city trembled under the worst fighting yet in the eleven-month struggle between Christians and Moslems, right and left, haves and havenots. The capital was on the verge of final collapse. The crisis had international dimensions; with Lebanon unable to stop the fighting, there was a possibility that Syria might move in, and if Syria moved, there was also the threat of an Israeli countermove...
...screen after her long absence, because she did not see daily rushes on location. This week she finally saw Robin and Marian at its New York premiere at Radio City. When asked what she thought of herself, she replied in the manner of her unforgettable princess in Roman Holiday: "I shall have to see it again before I decide...
Harvard University has once more shown that its oft-stated non-sectarian position is merely a veneer to cloak an undisguisable anti-Jewish religious bias. The guilty party this time is the University Food Services. Today, in celebration of an ethnic holiday of a religious source, students were served "St. Patrick's Cake" during lunch. On Monday night, however, on a Jewish religious holiday, Purim, no effort was made to celebrate that festival with Hamentashen. Although an admittedly trivial case, this incident underscores those of this year's Yom Kippur registration and Christmas Dinner. What makes it especially insulting...