Word: speaker
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...still be exam period, but somewhere out there some seniors can dream only of June, and freedom. It's time to pick a Class Day speaker again, and the 1979 Class Committee is already looking for the one person who can perfectly capture the class's emotions on that solemn...
Congress is also expected to give Carter's fiscal 1980 budget some rough handling. Quips G.O.P. Congressman Barber Conable of New York: "It's going to be a Republican Congress-full of Democrats." House Speaker Tip O'Neill has been fretting that if Carter trims too much from the budget, there will not be enough for Congress to slash to impress the folks back home. Yet whatever Carter cuts will evoke outcries from some special interests that are sure to be used to good advantage by the man the President fears the most, Ted Kennedy. In talking...
...pieces were lively, if spiteful. They were sometimes relieved by his love of puns, which he has since learned to check. He continues with zest and doggedness but not always with fairness or pinpoint accuracy to go after Democratic wrongdoing. Bert Lance knows his sting, and so does House Speaker Tip O'Neill. Safire's coverage of Lance won him a Pulitzer...
Peter McLoughlin '79, co-chairman of the selection committee, said yesterday that Trudeau has been among the celebrities to turn down the offer in past years. "There's no money offered for the job, and sometimes it just comes down to being able to get a speaker because someone at Harvard knows them," he said...
...about a two-week process to invite a speaker and get a response," Alter said Thursday. "We could get to the bottom of the list before...