Word: weekend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Castle Square, weekend site of an outdoor market, will be lit up by arches of electric lights and adorned with bunches of wild purple heather and blue hydrangeas. Thirty sets of banners will festoon the town streets, and fresh paint is being splashed everywhere. As Decorator-in-Chief Lord Snowdon, Charles' uncle, airily put it: "I have designed the whole thing entirely for television." That brought an angry retort from Sir Anthony Wagner, Garter King of Arms and chief authority for the ceremony's heraldic details: "I don't regard myself as part of show business...
...South Vietnamese to begin taking over some of the combat burden borne by U.S. troops. "I have no doubt that the government of South Viet Nam is moving in this direction," he said. "They are willing to take over more of the responsibility." As Nixon met with Thieu last weekend, the urgency of that change was inescapable...
Ellman frankly concedes that his restaurants are not for gourmets-"We appeal to graduates of Howard Johnson's," he says-and that the appeal is frankly directed at the customers' venality. At Charles, there is free champagne; at the Steer Palace, a weekend "family plan" luncheon at which parents with children get the first child's meal free (even if it is a $6 sirloin steak), the second's for $1 and all others' for half price. Dinner, dancing and "all the drinks you can drink" for $9.95 is the bill of fare...
Faculty members conferred over the weekend in efforts to draw up a compromise version of the Afro demands that the Faculty might approve. Alex Inkeles said he would present such a revised version at the next Faculty meeting...
During the strike, Glazier became the only visible moderate leader; working through the weekend however, he tired of the pressures of holding together a group which was well-intentioned but totally unorganized and without any mandate for forging policy. While Kaplan continued through the entire wekend and authored the final proposal that ended the strike on April. 18, Glazier announced the dissolution of the Mem Church Group at the first mass meeting on Monday, April 14. Within three hours, he was on his way to the Cape with a friend from the Mem Church group to get away...