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...following year, Madame Chiang did get to Washington?to drum up support for the Nationalists?and it was a spectacular episode. She addressed both houses of Congress and spoke at a rally in Madison Square Garden. Henry Luce, the publisher of TIME and LIFE, who organized the tour, put her on the cover of his newsmagazine. As a guest at the White House, she brought her own silk sheets, which had to be changed every day. When Roosevelt met Madame Chiang, he had a card table placed between them, in order to avoid being "vamped...
Kicking off Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra music director James Yannatos’ 40th year at Harvard is this spectacular concert featuring works by two legendary heavyweights of classical music, Dmitri Shostakovich and Ludwig von Beethoven. Yannatos conducts this majestic evening of top-notch music. Tickets $8-16, student $6-10. 8 p.m. Sanders Theatre...
This small, tastefully decorated hotel does a spectacular job of maintaining its turn-of-the century feel. Each morning guests are greeted with a B&B-style continental buffet in the elegant common room. The small quarters come with all the amenities you’d expect, plus some feature sleek kitchenettes. Located in a quiet neighborhood on Charles Street, right next to the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, John Jeffries House is just three T-stops away from Harvard Square...
...worth the wait. On Oct. 15, after decades of fitful starts and spectacular failures for China's space program, Lieut. Colonel Yang Liwei, a diminutive ex-fighter pilot, roared into the heavens to become China's first man in space. During his 21-hour journey in the heavens, the 38-year-old Yang maneuvered weightlessly in the tight compartment of the Shenzhou V capsule, taking photographs, naps, and at one point producing a tiny Chinese flag?an iconic image that would soon be broadcast to 1.3 billion fellow citizens back home. The mission-control room outside Beijing burst into cheers...
...From Eliot on everybody realized that we hadn’t had a spectacular piece up to that time and it was time to put it on the line,” he added. “We had a great last 1000 meters but it just wasn’t enough...