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...time Philly alumni will cheer together on the same side. Philadelphia alumni rarely coalesce on the same issue, Hecksher says. "Even when Clark [Joseph S. Clark '23, blue-ribbon mayor in the city during the '50's and later a Pennsylvania senator] was running for mayor there were only stray followers." Louis G. Hill '46 of Chestnut Hill, a mayoral candidate whom Mayor Frank Rizzo overwhelmed in a recent primary, also failed to engender much Harvard-related support, Hecksher says...
Transparent Pyramid. The setting, however, is a different matter. It is pharaonic: a nucleus of ritual objects meant to serve the dead man in his next life, immured at the center of a transparent pyramid. Only a mummy is absent, but the eye of an irreverent visitor may easily stray to the center of the sunken atrium, half expecting to see a sarcophagus. Roche-Dinkeloo's design is elegant, icy and inflated. Lehman agreed that the new wing should have almost the same proportions as the Met's Great Hall - thus ensuring a large abstract monument to himself...
...Vietnamese relatives. She and Mills joined forces, and in a frantic two days in Saigon they rounded up 16 of her kin as well as the 20 relatives of the two students from San Francisco and five of Mills' old friends. He also took in tow a stray missionary and a student. By offering to be their sponsor, and talking persuasively to both U.S. and South Vietnamese officials. Mills got all 43 of the people aboard U.S. C-141s bound for Guam-and safety...
Apart from the stray attacks on the refugees, there was little fighting in the regions evacuated by Saigon last week...
...Asia, was not finished in time for the celebration. But colored lights were strung like necklaces across the trees and temples of the capital, and fountains were brilliantly illuminated. Western hippies, who for years have regarded Katmandu as a kind of real-life Shangrila, were banished for the occasion; stray dogs were poisoned...