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...argues, however, that the preparation did not affect everyone. "It strikes me that some of the brightest women in America have contented themselves with desultory activities, submerging themselves in children and husbands," she says, a fact she says she noticed especially in looking through her class's 25th reunion book. "There are too many compromises being made. What has happened to your intelligence, what has happened to your drive, when you're making cookies...
...Square parade was a rousingly patriotic finale to a yearlong pageant of World War II commemorations across Europe, including the D-day ceremonies on France's Normandy beaches last June, a reunion of U.S. and Soviet veterans on the banks of the Elbe River late last month and President Reagan's visit to the German war cemetery at Bitburg. But the Soviet ceremony stood in sharp contrast to the muted V-E day commemorations a day earlier* in Western Europe --and once again highlighted the antipathy that has grown among erstwhile allies. Said a senior Western diplomat in Moscow...
...novel follows the lives of five Harvard men from their freshman registration in 1954 to 1983, the year of their 25th reunion. Brooklyn-born Segal is a member of this class of '58, although the closest the book gets to an artist-celebrity is Daniel Rossi, a California kid whose reputation as one of the world's great pianists is established faster than one can say veritas...
...different way of life," he says. The night before, everyone had gathered for the last party, an "End of an Era" cocktail hour. They gave Steve Coe $301 they collected as a thank-you present, and Bobbi Pluhar stood on a chair and promised there would be a reunion at her house next year. "I thought it would continue as it was," said Joe Pluhar, sadly. "We developed it into a business that I think was an institution, and inside of a week he has practically dumped it. It certainly gave us a shock...
Until a few weeks ago, Nesselwang's worst fate was being inundated by thousands of skiers every winter. Now the tranquillity of the small Bavarian town is being threatened by visitors of another kind: veterans of two SS divisions, who intend to hold reunions there. The town council did not disguise its unhappiness with those plans but stressed that it could do nothing because the veterans' groups are legally entitled to meet. In protest, however, the town band has refused to play for the gathering. For their part, leaders of the two SS "old comrades' associations" insisted last week that...