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Walter J. Leonard, the University's affirmative action officer, will deliver a memorial oration at Cambridge's third annual Commemoration of the Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr., this Thursday at 7:30 p.m. at Cambridge's Main Library, on 449 Broadway (a short walk from the Science Center). Leonard was a close personal friend of King and will discuss their relationship in his speech. Saundra Graham will also speak during the program, which will include a slide show on the history of blacks in Cambridge...
Through its sophisticated and expensive techniques, television has forged a football game into the nation's single largest shared experience (except for electing a President or watching American astronauts walk on the moon). The Super Bowl has made other contributions to the culture too, footnotes not to be lost. In 1967, The Game was responsible for the release of 4,000 pigeons in flight over the crowd, an exercise that produced history's most massive precision drill: the simultaneous holding of souvenir programs over 63,036 heads. Other wonders: a 30-foot statue of a Green Bay Packer snorting smoke...
...friends and tugged at a lady's bouffant wig. Wife Kate finally got him settled down for a midnight supper and sighed: "I have only one more opening night left in me." Her mate was an ecumenical pain during the pre-Broadway road tour. Explained Kate: "He would walk up the aisles and people would say, 'God bless you.' He began to feel like the Pope...
...Hanley's haul takes place over 368 relentless pages. The artist's death, near the end, gives his wife one of the few chances to make a genuinely moving speech: "1 knew my husband was a failure three long years ago, but you don't just walk out on a person just because they turn out to be second rate ... There's more to a man than that." Hanley wrests such epiphanies from meager raw materials, and it is easy to commend his skill and tenacity. But A Dream Journey like Clem and Lena themselves...
...films are breaking box-office records in Utah and Idaho. They deal basically with pioneer-children stories, action adventures with strong moral kickers-all shamelessly calculated to make kids and adults laugh, cry and walk away feeling entertained, not emotionally drained. Dayton's first film, made in 1973, was Where the Red Fern Grows, a tale of a boy and his two hunting dogs. Financed with the help of Dayton's surgeon father-in-law, Dr. George Doty, Fern cost $500,000 but already has grossed $8 million. It starred Dayton's 16-year-old nephew, Stewart...