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...happened on the financial front this week. First, almost 300 alumni gathered last weekend under a tent at Eliot House, where they drank to their own success as fundraisers for the Harvard College Fund...
...starters, Lelong Drive, leading up to the city's Museum of Art, was painted a kind of Nile blue. The Fairmont Hotel opened a tent restaurant outside the museum with such specialties as Sphinxburger, Queen Nefertiti's Salad and Ramses' Gumbo. Bourbon Street Exotic Dancer Chris Owens, in a new Egyptian costume complete with vulture collar and emblems of the god Ra, is gyrating through a routine entitled "Pharaoh's Favorite Toy." The New Leviathan Oriental Fox Trot Orchestra has released an Old King Tut album, and Tut T shirts are also catching on. For those...
Generations of G.I.s have learned to use the bowl-shaped M1 combat helmet as a hammer for tent stakes, a shaving basin and a stew pot -as well as, of course, a means of protection. But the old "wobble pot" is also literally a pain in the neck. It comes in only one size (with adjustable liner), feels like a ton (actual weight: 3 Ibs. 4 oz.) and a soldier has to hold it on when he runs. At last, relief is in sight. The U.S. Army Research and Development Command at Natick, Mass., is field-testing a new design...
...biologists are naturally loath to become ensnared in more Government regulations. They point out that governmental regulation poses inherent dangers to the freedom of inquiry that science requires. Comments Biochemist Robert White of the National Academy of Sciences: "I hate to see the camel's nose under the tent...
Twice, Civil Rights Lawyer William Kunstler and Activist Comedian Dick Gregory spoke to protest rallies. In May 200 demonstrators staged a campus march, and some of them pitched tents on the famous hill. They vowed to stay until the bulldozers pushed them out. So far the university's trustees have reject ed the protesters' demands to pick another site. At week's end retiring President Glenn Olds ordered the eviction of the 50 to 100 tent dwellers, many of whom are not students. They planned to resist...