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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...impressed any longer. Except for a panel discussion on Monday, he has boycotted the class's 25th reunion. "The whole notion of 'Funfest '45' is an obscenity in a time like like this." he says. "The announcements they sent were like those of damn-fool pantyraid collegians. It's proof these guys never got over being Harvard...
...results of the poll hold few surprises, except perhaps on the issue of Kelman, one of three Commencement speakers chosen by faculty committee in March. After the meeting of May 26, John F. Ince '70, the first Class Marshal, expressed to President Pusey the seniors' dissatisfaction with Kelman, whose book Push Comes to Shove is critical of Harvard radicals...
...returned to his spacious family villa at Bien Hoa, 15 miles from Saigon, to relax with his wife, his six children and his swimming pool. Next morning at 7:30, he boarded a waiting helicopter with all the aplomb of a commuter headed for another day at the office-except that Tri's office these days is a large swath of disputed Cambodian territory and his day is spent in what he calls "a hunting game between my forces and the Communists...
...chaos might be amusing except for the potential importance of CATV to the nation. Since conventional TV must broadcast to large audiences, it must seek programming with the broadest possible appeal. As of now, for instance, there will be no original theater on network TV next season because no sponsor has been found. NBC has canceled perhaps its most literate situation comedy, My World and Welcome to It, because it pulled too small a following−a mere 21 million. Since it costs less to operate and can be aimed at a specific audience, cable TV could, for a charge...
...Except for its opening, a deceptively mild verse of Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, the lyrics of It's a Drag were written by Milt Robertson and are a pastiche of radio and TV anti-smoking spots. "I don't have no more blood in my bloodstream," Felicia sings raspily, "just a mixture of tar and nicotine. So give it up, put it down and leave it there." She smiles brightly through her recital of nicotine terrors, gets progressively hoarser, ends in a thoroughly convincing coughing fit. Created by Sanders and her husband, Pianist-Arranger Irving Joseph...