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...Textbooks have always been a drag on sales, though Coop members find that hard to believe," Zavelle said. He explained that textbooks require a large outlay for slow sales. The new store, only 30 per cent larger than a single floor of the Palmer St. Annex, will contain a medical text reference department, and will not have room for more...
...budget reductions are the new library planned by the Graduate School of Education, two buildings at the Law School designed to provide more classroom and office space, and a Chemistry-Biology building to be built in the new Science Center. The Graduate School of Design and the Widener underground annex might also lose federal grants in the budget pinch. Mather House, however, will be financed completely with funds raised during the Program for Harvard College and has never been a candidate for government...
...graduate and former New York Metropolitan curator, the Walters is making the most of what William and Henry bought. It has boosted membership with lectures, movies and gallery-sponsored art tours of Europe. And after losing two city votes for bond loans to help finance a $4,500,000 annex, the museum finally won last year on its third try. When completed in 1971, the new annex will enable the museum to display 50% of its collection .-including, it is hoped, treasures that have never before come to light...
...avalanche of yen during the 1964 Olympics. With the 1970 World's Fair at Osaka coming up, the hotel's crusty president, Tetsuzo Inumaru, 80, decided to wait no longer. Early last month he announced that the old Imperial would be demolished, except for its 1958 annex of 550 rooms, to make way for a modern 18-story hotel with 1,000 additional rooms. Protests, editorials and cables from abroad poured in. The influential architect Kiyoshi Higuchi called the old Imperial "a swan afloat on a lake." Young Japanese architects formed a society to save the hotel...
Small wonder that space is almost as precious to the British Museum as its best-known treasure, the Elgin marbles. To end the congestion, the museum trustees have for 20 years been looking ahead to the prospect of building an annex across the square, and Britain's governments have allotted more than $5,000,000 toward the purchase of necessary land. Last month, however, the Secretary of State for Education and Science, Patrick Gordon Walker, announced that the Labor government had scrapped its plans for a museum addition. Even more shocking was his hint that the museum...