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Organizers have dubbed the four-day 350th birthday party a "family affair," but don't let their anti-climactic, homespun rhetoric fool you. This shindig has been in the works for over six years and will cost the University well over $1 million. The Prince of Wales and the Boston Pops will be there, even if President Ronald Reagan will not. And up to 40,000 or so undergraduates, alumni and friends of the College will be wined, dined, enlightened and entertained when they descend upon the Yard during the first week of September to take part...
...lower price to attend the reunion--$480 per couple--but their events cost Harvard less to run and their donations this year have dwarfed the reunions' costs. The Class of '36 has forked over $2.4 million to the College Fund; Harvard will treat them to a $180,000 shindig this week...
...centennial birthday party is billed as a "family affair," but it promises to be the biggest corporate shindig that Atlanta, and probably all of the U.S., has ever seen. Some 14,000 Coca-Cola employees from around the world are flying into the Georgia capital with their families this week, all expenses paid, to join about 10,000 local colleagues in the fun. During four days of festivities, they will toast one another at a mammoth black-tie dinner, join coworkers on six continents in singing Happy Birthday via satellite and enjoy the hoopla of a two-hour parade through...
Saturday's shindig with Lafayette will be the first meeting in history between the two clubs, and will pit Crimson Coach Frank McLaughlin against legendary Lafayette mentor Butch van Breda Kolff...
...fanciest shindig at the White House since the Reagan Administration started worrying about excessive opulence. But the cause was a sentimental favorite: the Princess Grace Foundation, incorporated after her death "to support educational and cultural activities with a primary focus on emerging young talent in the dance and theater arts...