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When Mildred B. Bliss died in 1969, leaving Harvard sole custodian of what had been her elegant Washington, D.C., home and 16-acre garden, she stressed in her will that the estate's trees were "not to be neglected or lightly destroyed."
The University's real estate holdings, though not administered by the Development Office, are still an important source of alumni gifts that currently offer substantial financial benefits to Harvard. Sail Fish Point, Fla., a 775-acre tract in some of the finest undeveloped land along the Florida coast, is typical...
A Mexican citizen from Gilroy, California, where his parents are agricultural worders, Guizar came to Harvard after spending a year in Switzerland. He was born in central Mexico, and moved to Gilroy at eight because his parents were supporting an older brother in medical school and could not make enough...
From the outside, it looks like something out of Buck Rogers-a 70-story silo of glass that is at once Atlanta's tallest building and the world's tallest hotel. Inside, guests enter a seven-story-high lobby big enough to hold a triple-level lounge, a...
That success earned Portman even more ambitious jobs. In San Francisco, he joined with Chase Manhattan Bank Chairman David Rockefeller, Dallas Developer Trammell Crow and the Prudential Investment Corp. to build Embarcadero Center, often called "Rockefeller Center West"-an 8.5-acre, $200 million office, apartment and hotel project. In Detroit...