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In the cities and towns of Israel last week, the people had reason to rejoice. It was Passover week, when families celebrate the flight from Egypt more than 3,000 years ago. The populace also had a grand secular occasion to celebrate: the upset victory (78 to 77) of a...
The occasion was the first-ever coming of Jimmy Carter, scheduled to visit Clinton (pop. 13,300) to answer questions from the audience at a simulated New England town meeting. He planned to spend the night not at a hotel but in a private home. The visit to Clinton is...
Khrushchev's visit to China in the fall of 1959, ostensibly to celebrate National Day on the first of October, was tedious and painful. On that occasion Khrushchev announced he would withdraw all his experts from China and pressed the Chinese to pay all their debts. [The Soviets also...
There is something magical about the first rounds of spring, so that we remember some of them long, long after we have played them, not on account of any petty personal triumphs or disasters, but from the pure joy of being alive, club in hand. There was one Easter half...
International Women's Day was celebrated at Harvard last Saturday for somewhat different reasons than on the occasion of its first proclamation in 1908. Almost 70 years ago, a group of working women declared their solidarity with the women of the world and protested against what they saw as the...