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...program of music relied heavily on the traditional with a felicitous overlay of the modern. There was everything from Handel to favorite hymns of Charles (Christ Is Made the Sure Foundation) and of Diana (I Vow to Thee, My Country) to a lilting yet regal new anthem by Welsh Composer William Mathias, 46. The ceremony ended with God Save the Queen, newly arranged by Sir David Willcocks, director of the Royal College of Music, who worked the oceanic swell of that great melody into a kind of coda of moral grandeur. As the anthem died, cheers penetrated the thick cathedral...
...assembled a pretty good company for the supporting roles. Best of these, the play's second-longest part, is the captain Fluellen of Roy Dotrice, whose one-man show Brief Lives on Broadway and at Harvard was one of the milestones of 20th-century acting. With an impeccable Welsh accent Dotrice has a grand time being blunt, prickly, contentious, and pedantic...
Dick Francis, 60, says deadpan that his debut as a professional jockey came at the age of five, when an older brother bet him sixpence that he couldn't take their Welsh pony over a hedge while sitting backward in the saddle. After five falls, daring Dick collected. The steeplechase riders he has written about in 21 novels have a lot in common with the young Francis. They are dogged, not necessarily the best, but decent and vulnerable; they eat a lot of mud and get mauled frequently and badly. But they do collect: the bruises, the booty...
Navy ROTC, which was the largest of Harvard's three detachments in 1969, now has no Harvard students in its program, Lt. Commander Edward J. Welsh, the Navy's regional ROTC recruiter, says...
...haven't spent a lot of time on Harvard," Welsh adds. "The majority of people at Harvard are looking for graduate school opportunities. We go once a year, but we don't even know if we'll keep doing that anymore," he says...