Word: weekend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Quite a high-powered speaker's list for a reunion weekend...
...there was a blot on the weekend. A big blot--James B. Williams, the acting assistant secretary of education...
...Harvard Education School summer program which trains some of the nation's elite educational administrators held its 20th reunion last weekend. In line with Harvard's usual flare for pomp and circumstance, the Institute for Educational Management (IEM) invited some very prominent speakers...
Spontaneity is not confined to such ambitious projects. Scattered across the plains every summer weekend are powwow reunions dedicated to preserving Indian language and folkways. A score of modest vans and trailers descend on the meeting points. Tepees dot the periphery. Over bowls of venison soup and yellow hominy, knots of Indians chew over native rights and tribal ritual. At Flandreau, S. Dak., Isanti Sioux Bill Gilbert, 32, a cook at an Indian school, prepares to dance in ceremonial gear of eagle feathers and porcupine quills. "It brings people together and gives a chance to get away from rush, rush...
South Dakota, North Dakota and Montana are celebrating their centennials with rodeos, cattle drives, river regattas and folk fests, luring visitors westward to rediscover the nation's astonishingly recent past. Wagon trains cross South Dakota, Victorian trappings grace a 19th century cattle ranch, and weekend powwows on the range continue all summer long...