Word: weekending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hundred and twenty-five students from major eastern colleges attended the thirteenth annual Harvard-Yale-Princeton Colloquium held at the University over the weekend. Theme of the meeting was "Jewish Life as Reflected in Modern Jewish Literature...
Trim in a charcoal grey suit, black loafers and grey Homburg, Berlin's muscular Mayor Willy Brandt, 45. bounded down the steps of the plane from Ottawa last weekend before Washington's photographers could get their cameras aimed. Brandt and his pretty, blonde wife were met by State Department Berlin Expert Eleanor Lansing Dulles, whose brother John Foster had just flown off to confer with German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer about Brandt's Russia-menaced city. Said Brandt: "I will tell my friends in the U.S. about free Berlin . . . You can rely on the people of the city...
...accustomed to dull makeup and stodgy writing, they raised eyebrows at the generous use of color, white space, and sprightly features in the 174-page edition. "We haven't been able to featurize our papers much over the years," said Managing Editor Myron Depew. "Now maybe on the weekend we can entertain our readers, maybe charm them a little...
...Dartmouth notwithstanding, the varsity has been playing good basketball, or at least good enough to beat teams of Brown's calibre. In both its games last weekend, the Crimson showed unquestionable strength, and with a break or two would have probably beaten Cornell as well as hapless Columbia...
...enough snow. Nevertheless, festivities have increased in scale since the first Carnival, whose purpose was "to provide the added attraction of women, something foremost in the minds of even the most wild and wooly woodsmen." Fred Harris, founder of the Outing Club, which is one sponsor of the weekend, believed that young ladies would foster young men's propensity to enjoy the great outdoors...