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Washington D.C., Friday, September 30, 1983. More than 300 people crowded into the Department Hall for a black the dinner, part of a symposium sponsored by Harvard and the American Broadcasting Co, on how to increase voter registration. Even the television cameramen wore luzedos and white gloves for the gala, which drew many of the Capital's media and political chieftains. Before the dinner, waiters mingled among the crowd, offering peeled grapes coated with a nut cheese spread and small slices of quiche, During the meal, two men waited on each table to serve the five courses, and their accompanying...
...summer with a heartbreak. An expert on Conpernicus' "De Revolutionibis [Concerning the Revolutions]" that first proposed that the earth rotates around the sun, rather than the reverse. Gingerich seizes every opportunity to examine the rare work. In June, he arrived in Hamburg, Germany, on his way to a scientific symposium just 24 hours after the auctioning of an unexamined copy...
Officials at Harvard and the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) yesterday revealed details of an unusual symposium on voter turnout they are co-sponsoring this fall that will bring together President Reagan, former Presidents Carter and Ford, and a host of top government officials, politicians scholars, and journalists...
Four demonstrators from the ultra-conservative National Democratic Policy Committee were ejected from the Science Center after trying to shout down the speakers at the symposium sponsored by the Forum for the U.S.-Soviet Dialogue, a group established to create non-governmental discussion between the two countries...
...When I went to Rome I became so fascinated with bronze that I stuck with it," he says. "Now that I look back, I think I should have gone up to Carrara and spent more time getting to know stone." A summer at the international sculpture symposium in the basalt quarries of Eugene, Oregon gave him his first opportunity...