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Until Paris, went the chat among trade and press, the shows in Milan and London were a cumulative snooze-a-thon. Only Armani, in Italy, showed strength. The designers of England were, as ever, erratic and eccentric. There were signs of disappointment in retail reactions to the shows. Skirmishes over skirt length were blown, in the absence of any heavier action, into epic battles in a generally desperate attempt to bring heat to the placid proceedings. The short-skirt wrangle was a sure sign that the season was falling into something worse than a crisis. At least a critical condition...
According to Hammerschmidt, fundraising has actually risen this year in the school's alumni "phone-a-thon." He said that less than 2 percent of alumni contacted refused to donate money because of the policy, and 99 percent of the angry letters his office has received are from non-donors...
Kitty Dukakis, Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz, and three recent emigres from the Soviet Union joined in the third annual write-a-thon for Soviet refuseniks yesterday on the steps of Widener Library...
...event, organized by Harvard Students for Soviet Jewry, gathered signatures on roughly 1900 letters and about 1000 signatures on petitions on behalf of 13 Jews who have been denied permission to immigrate to the U.S. or Israel. Several scholars from Harvard and MIT also spoke at the write-a-thon...
Members of one of the families Dershowitz worked to release, the Gudava family, were at the write-a-thon to help publicize the plight of Soviet refuseniks...