Word: host
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recently as 1969, South Viet Nam was host to nearly 540,000 Americans-though hardly tourists-who funneled some $400 million a year into the Vietnamese economy. Now that all but 10,000 of them have gone home, Saigon is trying a new lure for American dollars...
...best--and presumably the brightest--of the friends of Henry Kissinger '50, will gather at the Colony Club in New York tomorrow night to celebrate his 50th birthday. Guido G. Goldman '59, professor of Government, will host 150 guests in honor of his former thesis adviser...
...order to resolve the host of problems plaguing CP3, Rowe finally requested that the review by an ad hoc committee which was scheduled for 1974 be held instead in Fall 1972. After an intensive study of CP3 the committee recommended in its report to President Bok that the University either increase its commitment to the program and restructure it by placing it in one school with interdisciplinary ties, or drop the program altogether. Unexpectedly, Bok chose to drop it. Unwilling to increase University support for an historically unstable program, Bok placed a moratorium on admissions to CP3, effectively killing...
...former Oriole Superstar Frank Robinson, who is now with the California Angels, the return to Baltimore's Memorial Stadium for the first time in two years was something of a homecoming. Less than two miles away, however, Johns Hopkins University was host to Navy in another homecoming game that outdrew the Orioles at the gate- 8,200 fans to 7,177. Robby and the Orioles need not have felt slighted. The big campus contest was nothing so mundane as baseball. It was America's oldest organized sport: lacrosse...
Maynard's generation was David Riesman's Lonely Crowd come to life. No longer fine-tuned so much to parents or even to peers, her contemporaries were instead formed by a host of advertising slogans, magazine spreads and television screenplays. Maynard confesses that at 13 she was virtually enslaved by the fashion pages of Seventeen (she still has every copy since 1965), nearly traumatized by LIFE'S cover photograph of an unborn baby ("that eerie fetus") and mesmerized by the very worst of TV ("five thousand hours of my life into this...