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Both the Harvard alumni office and the Radcliffe Institute offer alumni colleges, each giving three week-long sessions on three different subjects and each open to Harvard and Radcliffe alumni. The participants do a fair amount of advance reading, then spend their week at the college going to lectures and discussing the material. Peter D. Shultz '52, general secretary of the Associated Harvard Alumni, who piloted the first alumni college five years ago, says the alumni office has found that alumni respond best to this kind of intensive work on a single topic...
Since the declaration of the state of emergency, Mrs. Gandhi has been careful to remain technically within the bounds of legality. Last week she announced that Parliament would convene on July 21 for a week-long session. The constitution requires parliamentary approval of a state of emergency within 60 days of its imposition. Since the Congress Party has a two-thirds majority in the powerful lower house, Mrs. Gandhi will have...
...course of week-long in-hospital examinations of 30 Jamaicans who routinely smoke an average of seven marijuana cigarettes a day, doctors found that they were more likely than nonsmokers to exhibit hypoxia, a decrease of oxygen carried by the blood to the organs and tissues. But their heart rates, liver and lung functioning, coordination and memory were not significantly different from that of nonusers. Critics of the new study feel it did not look long or closely enough to find the genetic and other defects previously shown to be associated with marijuana; they still believe the drug is harmful...
...Dinos" grew more famous in the 1960s, he began holding his annual Delos symposium, a week-long Aegean cruise to which he would invite 30 or so distinguished thinkers. A typical guest list would include the likes of Inventor Buckminster Fuller, Historian Arnold Toynbee, Industrialist Robert O. Anderson, Economist Barbara Ward and Media Guru Marshall McLuhan. It was, Anthropologist Margaret Mead once said, the closest thing to the great English house parties of the turn of the century-stimulating talk in an informal atmosphere...
Stumbling off the plane at Logan Airport, the triumphant Harvard Rugby Club reassured the world of its dominance in international competition after a week-long sojourn to the Dominican Republic...