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...College that bears John Harvard's name this week celebrates its 500th birthday, there would seem to be no reason for the present deans to revise any part of Dean Henry's formulation. Most freshmen still cruise through Cambridge on the four-year plan, and the University itself shows no signs of folding its camping modules. It would seem that Rosovsky, who later left Harvard to become commissioner of the Major Indoor Soccer League, hit at least two out of three nails on the head...
Cornell won its 500th victory in the history of its football program by defeating Yale, 20-14, at the Yale Bowl Saturday...
...price? A mere $52,000. And the cruise date? October 12, 1992, the 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's discovery of America...
...this occupied land, where remainders of German defeat, shame and partition are visible everywhere, is finding cultural solace and renewed pride in its heroes and native sons. In 1983, on the 500th anniversary of his birth, East Germany celebrated Martin Luther. Today, in their tercentenary year, it praises George Frideric Handel and Johann Sebastian Bach, the two greatest composers of the Baroque. Here, where the lives and paths of such men as Luther, Handel, Bach, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Richard Wagner intersect, the glory, unity and tragedy of German history are a living memory...
...work in space in ways that we never imagined were possible," he radioed the four-man, one-woman crew of Discovery. If the President has his way, nightly news viewers "ain't seen nothin' yet." Reagan wants to launch a permanent space station by 1992 (the 500th anniversary of Columbus' discovery of the New World) and have in place by the next century a Star Wars system of space-based missile defenses to protect the U.S. from nuclear attack. His national space strategy, announced last August, calls for the commercialization of space-through such novelties as orbiting...