Word: reunions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...know if there have been many complaints about the Class of '54 reunion comittee's nudie poster, but I would like to assure your readers that there are many women (and men) who find it offensive. Messrs. Arnold, Strauss and Hill may not acknowledge it, but I submit that they chose an unzipped female figure for their poster to create a leering, sophomoric tone which they thought would attract their 45 year-old-plus classmates back to the scene of their frisky undergraduate lives...
...Newport Jazz Festival. The Quintet played the kind of dense, improvisational music that Miles had been experimenting with in the late '60s, and their performance was so well received that the Quintet recorded two live albums and went on a major concert tour in 1977. Their reunion was highly-touted and very well attended, and the musicians were praised for revitalizing exciting and difficult musical forms...
Frontier skirmishing between the two states began several years after South Yemen gained its independence from Britain in 1967. The people of the two Yemens consider themselves to be one nation, but the radically different political views of their governments have made reunion impossible. According to North Yemen, Aden mounted the latest invasion to halt an embarrassing exodus from the south-perhaps 20,000 people since last June. The North Yemenis also charged that the invading forces had killed "large numbers of women and children" in an assault led by Soviet-supplied planes, tanks and artillery. Although claims to captured...
...organizational problems, most notably the ineptitude of most of the conference organizers. Rumors kept circulating that the whole conference was, in fact, a sham cleverly disguised by a small group of Ivy League students, who knew each other from high school back in Harverford, Pa., to have a reunion financed by their student governments. The rumor, strangely, seemed credible--all these people could do was pass resolutions, talk for hours on end to no purpose, and argue about procedure. Nevertheless, 20 Harvard-Radcliffe students thought it worth their time and effort to do the research necessary to prepare reports...
...Harvard officials saw a unique opportunity to take advantage of the field-tested College Fund organization by class and area, which has broken fund-raising records for each of the past several years. "Our reunions are so strong that we were terrified of the competition between reunion giving and a capital drive," Clifton said...