Word: symposium
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...appearance of cast members from the television show "Saturday Night Live" in front of the Harvard Lampoon castle yesterday afternoon attracted a crowd of nearly 500 to the Lampoon's "First Annual Symposium on Humor and Office Furniture Clearance Sale...
...very building where the mysterious Legionnaires' Disease may have been contracted, doctors last week gathered for a symposium, eating lunch and sipping beverages, apparently unconcerned about being stricken with the deadly malady. The physicians had assembled in Philadelphia's Bellevue Stratford Hotel not as an act of reckless bravado but to exchange all the latest information about the cause of the ailment that left 29 people dead and struck 151 others last summer after an American Legion convention at the hostelry...
...enough to scare off many patrons. Since the summer, the occupancy rate of the "Grand Old Lady of Broad Street," as Philadelphians affectionately call it, had dipped to a disastrous 8% -and losses climbed to $10,000 a day. Even such gestures as last week's symposium did not help. Indeed, the meeting was really more like a wake. At week's end the Bellevue Stratford closed its doors-thus becoming the 30th fatality of Legionnaires' Disease...
...final session of the symposium of Action for Children's Television (ACT), speakers suggested censorship in advertising and advocated that the networks take responsibility for providing appropriate subject material for children...
...national symposium, entitled "Products and Programs: The Child as Consumer," is sponsored by ACT and the Harvard Graduate School of Education...