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...time the conference ended last Sunday, the student organizers had received five death threats from anonymous callers, the Harvard Police had conducted a security sweep of the conference site in Austin Hall, and 150 students had gathered outside Paine Hall to join a "silent vigil" triggered by one of the conference's speakers...
...high-risk areas, including cities with more than 50,000 inhabitants and areas near military bases and industrial centers. Officials expect to have anywhere from a few days to a week to prepare for nuclear attack. Evacuation plans have already been placed in telephone directories in Plattsburgh, N.Y., Austin, Marquette County, Mich., and Aroostoock County, Me. By next year, 38 million Americans will have similar instructions in their phone books. FEMA also plans to restock fallout shelters and eventually train 8,200 state and local workers for emergency duty. Says FEMA Director Louis Giuffrida: "The Administration proposes to take action...
...generations after its founding in 1881, the University of Texas at Austin seemed to have only one long-range game plan: its football program. As recently as 1975, a university committee evaluating academic standards concluded that U.T. was "not yet a university of the first class." But in recent years this sprawling, state-chartered institution, with 48,000 students, 2,100 faculty and 6,300 courses, has been playing a kind of academic catch-up game-raiding superstar talent from the faculties of such schools as Harvard and Princeton. Its weapon: a gusher of endowment money, fueled by oil wells...
...other top specialists in elementary-particle theory. Says Weinberg, 48: "I'm trying to build up a group of theoretical physicists, and I'm being given the resources to do it." At U.T. he joined Physicist John Wheeler, 70, the distinguished nuclear-fission expert who came to Austin in 1976 after 38 years at Princeton, and Marshall Rosenbluth, 55, a leading plasma physicist. Rosenbluth was lured away from Princeton when U.T. pledged a cool $5 million for five years to establish an institute for fusion studies...
Dealers have responded to such appreciation with come-ons as enticing as those of any money fund. John Jenkins lures the blue-chip set to his $20 million inventory in Austin with tax tips: a collection of rare books that cost $50,000 to build, he points out, can be donated to a library and deducted from taxes at the current value. So the collecting is free, and the gift may be named for the donor: immortality at discount prices. Concludes Jenkins: "All an investor needs is patience, a good adviser and a collection worth more than...