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According to custom, the ladies each received a long-stem red rose and the men a small cigar. To the distress of the security guards, the majority of the cigars were lit inside the ball-room where there were no ashtrays...

Author: By Shara R. Kay, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: First-Years Find Favor With Formal | 2/23/1998 | See Source »

...none of those gathsered knew that Podkopaev took ice skating lessons on early Saturday mornings last winter to improve his rollerblading skills, or that he was an avid ball-room dancer, or that his many friends admired his intelligence, his sensitivity and his zest for life...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Economics Doctoral Student Commits Suicide | 6/22/1996 | See Source »

...night, student overseers at all but one of the dances enforce a dress code. Swing and ball-room music dominates at a few affairs. At another semi-formal, students contort themselves to the latest discotheque tunes in a hall so dark that it would have been impossible to distinguish between tuxedos and clean football jerseys. Many at the semi-formal compare the atmosphere to that of the 1920s. "It's the same old song put to different music," one student complains. "Why couldn't I have been here six years ago when Yale and Harvard didn't mean...

Author: By Robert L. Ullman, | Title: Clotheslines and Leather | 11/24/1975 | See Source »

...World Health Organization is sponsoring a lecture on "Human Ecology" to be given by Professor Rene Dubos of Rockefeller University. Wednesday, July 16, 1969 at the Grand Ball-room of the Sheraton Boston Hotel. A limited number of complimentary tickets are available in Matthews Hall room 4. Open to all Harvard students, faculty, and staff...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Human Ecology" | 7/15/1969 | See Source »

Saturday August 22: Rauh wins his first battle: The Credentials Committee hearings are moved to the ball-room. The Freedom delegates, after lining up outside Convention Hall and singing freedom songs before a crowd of 500 puzzled on-lookers, are permitted to enter the hearings. Henry, wearing a large LBJ button, repeatedly tells the press, "Even if we lose, we are going back to Mississippi to work for Johnson...

Author: By Nancy Moran, | Title: The Politics of Civil Rights: | 9/22/1964 | See Source »

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