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About 70 war correspondents, out of perhaps 400 who covered the Korean War, have turned up at the Marriott for a two-day reunion. Come June 25 it will be 30 years since the forces of North Korea's Kim II Sung rolled south over the 38th parallel and started the first hot war of the cold war period. Everybody present (wives excepted) is over 50. Most are over 60 and several over 70; most celebrated among them, Novelist James Michener...
...become the favorite of expense account auditors. New York City is only eighth on the list at $708 for a two-day visit, while Chicago ($570) and San Francisco ($567) rank 15th and 16th. The cheapest of the cities surveyed is Lima, Peru ($265). A hotel room costs just $60 a night, four theater tickets run to $12 and cigarettes are only 69? a pack. The low cost might just attract more businessmen into the llama import trade...
...academic assault on bad writing is strongest, and most varied, in the nation's colleges. "The buck is finally stopping with us," says William N. Free, a vice president at the University of Toledo. This semester, with 43 other top-level college administrators, Free attended a two-day workshop sponsored by the University of Iowa's Institute on Writing...
They gathered not far from where Paul Revere sounded his timely warning against invaders, and in many ways, their message was similar and every bit as alarmist. Meeting two weeks ago in Cambridge, Mass., for a two-day Harvard University conference on U.S. competitiveness, some 150 businessmen, academics and Congressmen took a generally gloomy view of the U.S.'s business prowess. The nation, they argued, is losing the international trade war; foreign competitors are producing better goods at lower costs. America now stands on the verge of becoming a second-rate economic power...
Representatives from more than a dozen American Indian tribes began a two-day Harvard conference yesterday with a discussion of Indian education and tribal development...