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...Harvard Radcliffe Committee on Oppressed Jewry held its seventh annual write-a-thon yesterday, sending out about 2000 letters urging Soviet authorities to allow a dissident to emigrate, said committee co-chair Max Kanevsky...
Besides demanding the most from himself in matches, he also makes every practice look like a work-a-thon...
That was the message given yesterday to more than 100 Harvard students arrested during the first-ever Phillips Brooks House-sponsored Jail-a-Thon to benefit the American Cancer Society...
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...