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...that it was put together by students on a low budget without the certainly of trips to Bermuda. If you want to do something for the aid of Harvard theater and undergraduate playwrights, Mad About Mintz is a good bet; as far as pure amoral fun goes, though, the palm goes to the Pudding...
...center of the battle was the palm-fringed city of Asmara, Eritrea's capital, which was rocked by mortar, bazooka and howitzer fire as rebel commandos attacked army and navy installations. One exchange caught a group of 30 Americans, including the local consul, in a social club; they gamely sang John Brown's Body and other traditional songs as tracer bullets arced overhead. A U.S. communications base was hit in another assault. Throughout the week, Ethiopian planes bombed and strafed guerrilla concentrations and mud-hut villages suspected of supporting the rebels. By week's end, according...
...Caribbean. Explains Linda Winer, a veteran Boston travel agent who says she has never experienced such a busy year: "The same people who regard tuna and Sara Lee cake as luxury items, treat travel as a necessity. They just have to get away from it all. Lying under a palm tree all day with no cousins borrowing money, no phone ringing with bad news, and no Wall Street Journal every day to tell you how badly your stocks are doing, you can act like royalty and just pretend for a week...
...going on 40 years now, Dwight Macdonald has written to-or at-his fellow Americans rather in the style of an indignant letter to the Times. The things Your Correspondent has to put up with! From native gaucheries ("Our manners are either bad or nonexistent") to Hollywood movies ("Palm trees don't make Los Angeles an exotic city and options on Ulysses don't make Hollywood a sophisticated one"). Then there's Webster's New International Dictionary (third edition), the "One Hundred Great Books," and all translations of the Bible except the King James Version. Will...
...PALM SUNDAY. Like so many undergraduates before homecoming, parisinoners have put together floats and costumes for a parade around the church parking lot and right into the sanctuary. At the tail end comes a flower-festooned forklift truck; Father Quinlan, standing atop the truck's raised platform and waving a green branch, symbolizes Christ entering the Holy City...