Welcome to our 35th annual Allstar Party. Please join me in welcoming a lady we love. Who is now appear ng a very supporting role in a major production back east. This is dutch reagan. And now, kindly join me in welcoming man who we greet as fred. A very special friend close to our hearts. Mr. Dutch reagan. Hello. Nancy and dutch, your host for the evening, 1983 variety club honoree, truly his broth brothers keeper, Frances Albert sinatra. You may be seated. Im delighted to be here with dutch and his bride. The first lady of the United States and might i add the first lady of geneva, too. And now, here are some wonderful people who will be entertaining you for the next hour. Youve already met marty and here are charleston heston, e dee gourmet and steve lawrence, of course. And emanuel lewis, the mightest little fella ive ever known in my life and my buddy, mr. Dean white. Mr. Burt reynolds. Mr. Vincent sculley, a giant in the baseball world. Mr. Ben vereen. And the variety club office
Political constitutional relationship between the power and the authority of the British Parliament and americas colonial legislators . And over the course of about 12 years between 1764 and 1776, the British Parliament passed a series of laws. In 1764, it began with the sugar act and then a year later the stamp act and then in 17671768 the townsend acts and then the tea act and then the coercive acts and then in 1775 the prohibitory act. But standing behind all of these acts of british legislation was one overarching piece of legislation which i think was the driving force behind all of these particular acts. And that was the declaratory act of 1766 which claimed that parliaments authority extended to the american colonies in all cases whatsoever. And that meant that parliament was not only supreme over the colonies but in fact its power and its authority was absolutely supreme. Right . So it could pass it could pass taxes which it had never done before and it could pass taxes in the
This is the virus magnified thousands of times by the electron microscope. This, the disease caused by the virus, one which has plagued man since recorded history. This, the scientist, dr. John enders of harvard, whose work made possible an effective vaccine which can prevent the disease. This, the place where the vaccine is tested and produced for use throughout the world, west point, pennsylvania. And this, the vaccine itself, the end product of medicines long match with measles. Many parents think of measles as just a common nuisance which makes their children feel miserable and keeps them out of school for a while, but physicians today know that measles is more than a nuisance. It can bring on bacterial infections, can cause fatal pneumonia and in some cases encephalitis, inflammation of the brain. Each case needs good medical care. It is not so much because of the usual rash and fever symptoms of measles that the doctor says hell check back in a day or so, but rather to be sure th
Our library provides access to our collection which has 14 million manuscript pages and among other things we also do programs for academics we also host exhibitions which is entitled voices from the boston massacre this is to experience the ramifications of the events not only to talk about john adams that the citizens of boston and how this moment of violence impacted their lives our speaker for the entire American Revolution his new book the will of the people explores towns and cities looks at the Continental Army and those that fought from the battle lines to send troops and weapons to support the collapse a long time friend of the Historical Society professor of law and governance at the library of congress in the founding director at northwestern university. Teaching American History at yale and is the author of a number of books recently including George Washingtons journey and marketplace of revolution and frequent contributor the time supplement thank you please help me to we
A happy first night of hanukkah to all. To all of our members and donors think you for your continued support. I can talk to you about our programs or membership. It has a lovely winter scene this month. While youre waiting in the Doctors Office or whatever. Check out our programs. If you are already we put some postcard on the table outside. Its part of our new science literacy program. The is for both science people and not science people. If you are curious more about that talk to me a couple other orders of business. You will notice we have cspan in the house. If your phone goes off it will be on tv tonight. Let me tell you about tonights guest. Tonight we have dr. Paul halpern. His interest range from space, time to higher dimensions. The recipients about guggenheim fellowship. He has appeared on the history channel. In pbs. The author of 15 Popular Science books including the quantum elaborate is available for sale at the end of the program. [applause]. I am delighted to be here