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...several of the "slaves" interviewed by The Varsity denied that there was anything improper in the event, which drew criticism from some feminist and religious group. The women stressed that the auction was planned as a joke and a creative way to raise money...
Ignorant of the details of the limited, one-time art sale proposal, an organization of prominent museum directors lumped Live. Bok and Harvard together and publicly lambasted them as villains willing to auction off masterpieces to pay for plumbing and wiring. This well-intentioned but clumsy interference apparently gave Bok the final push toward a move he may have already favored: He cancelled all expansion plans, contending that the art sale proposal would scare away any possible replacements for Slive, who announced last year that he would relinquish the directorship this fall...
...Federal Communications Commission has until Jan. 15 to disallow last week's auction and all future proceedings. There are 17 petitions now before the FCC, objecting to the auction mostly on grounds that selling transponders to the highest bidders is "unjustly discriminatory" and unduly inflates the prices. If the commission should agree, RCA is prepared to assign the transponders on a first-come first-served basis. They also have several to spare: Satcom IV carries 24 transponders, of which eight were assigned three years ago, two are "pre-emptable" (meaning, essentially, that they serve as backups) and seven...
...play's climactic scene, she is engagingly ironic: "I am up for auction...
...bust shipbuilding industry. In 1925, BIW actually closed its doors, and there were plans for turning the yard into a factory for making paper pie plates. In 1927, William S. ("Pete") Newell, a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an old-stock Yankee, bought BIW at auction and began building any kind of ship he could: yachts, Coast Guard cutters, fishing boats, then Navy vessels as World War II approached. Employment swelled to more than 12,000 during the war, but then plunged after the American victory at sea, falling to 350 in 1947. It picked up, though...