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...offered to X-ray the loot. In the end, there were widely reported incidents of pin-laden chocolate and strange tasting fruit. A packet of hypodermics was found in a box of cereal in Danbury, Conn., and a Long Island man was injured when he bit into a candy bar containing a straight pin. At least 22 pieces of “Trick” candy appeared around New York City: Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, Cadbury Chocolates, apples, and even Coke contained dangerous and nasty surprises. It is quite possible that the collective hysteria that struck nationwide...
While the Cold War is often associated with a nuclear arms race or space race, Harvard in the postwar years found itself in the midst of another critical contest. Fifty years ago, Harvard and other American universities competed against schools in other countries to reach a perpetually rising bar in the battle for superior education...
...Houghton was also an active member of the A.D. Club, an experience he describes as “something that neither helped nor hindered” him at Harvard. (A picture of Houghton and several friends from the Class of 1958 once adorned the wall of an upstairs bar room in the club’s elegant Plympton Street house...
...While the University was fighting the Rent Control Board, Grendel’s Den, the popular bar and restaurant located at 89 Winthrop St., was chafing under the Massachusetts law that allowed churches to deny establishments within 500 feet of their premises the right to serve alcohol...
...that he wasn't even on the ballot in Michigan, and suffered at the polls in Florida because he wasn't able to campaign there. Then the committee broke for what was supposed to be a one hour lunch, and both Clinton and Obama supporters repaired to the hotel bar, alternately cheering when images of their favored candidates flashed across the television screens...