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This is the fifth-year reunion of U.S. prisoners of war returned from Viet Nam. The guests and their wives have flown into Los Angeles on "space available" air flights and are camped gratis in 300 Marriott Hotel rooms for a weekend of caucusing and quiet carousal. Asked again and again by reporters and well-wishers, the P.O.W.s insist that they are here only for fun, not politics. Yes, we're doing just fine, most of them say. "We're all back in the mainstream," silver-haired Navy Captain Howard Rutledge beams. "We've been...
...trained pilots and college-educated military career men. Most agree that their time of torture and isolation taught them much about self-reliance and the importance of thinking small. Navy Lieut. (j.g.) Joe Mobley, 36, a thin, balding man who greeted his friends on the first morning of the reunion wearing reverse-heel Earth Shoes and dungarees, still acutely remembers what seem like almost microscopic moments of prisoner austerity. "Your senses become keener," he explains. "You can feel the effect of an aspirin. You can smell a bar of Dial soap at 400 yards...
...sense, the relative practical uselessness of what I learned at Radcliffe was what has kept me flexible and able to develop ever since college," she says. Hers is not the usual reunion-rosy picture of college life. "You don't really enjoy the four years. You are working so hard at deciding whether you can be someone on your own." Despite the conflicts of a search for identity, the inherent difficulties of attending a women's college that hired the professors of the men's college next to it, that was labelled and sometimes seemed like, an "Annex," Bromage feels...
...Harvard College Fund relies to a large degree on Class reunion gifts, which spark a good deal of friendly class rivalry each June. Clifton predicted that both the Class of '28 and the Class of '53 will reach or surpass their goals of $1 million and $1.5 million respectively...
They're damand lucky to even match what we did last year. They, did a great job," he said, adding that he was speaking more as a member of the Class of '52, which held the previous 25th reunion gift record, than as a Harvard official