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After 251 episodes, 104 hours of enriching entertainment, M*A*S*H is preparing to complete the circle in a blaze of hype and hush-hush. In this week's episode (the last to be filmed), the 4077 troop buries a time capsule in anticipation of the war's end. For next week's 2½-hour finale, the company is maintaining a who-shot-J.R.-style secrecy in hope of snagging the highest single-show rating ever. "It's a very simple story," says Alda, who directed and helped write the final show...
...economics department was hit the hardest by Sunday's blaze, according to Department Chairman William Kapron. Three offices belonging to professors and teaching fellows were "completely wiped out," Kapron said, destroying irreplaceable papers and research notes. The department also lost most of its instructional materials for introductory economics courses Nevertheless, Kapron termed the overall damage "surprisingly moderate...
Other departments fared better. Andrea White, administrative assistant of the mathematics department, said that no extensive research was lost in the blaze, although it consumed much of the department's computer equipment Computer and word processing equipment in the Center for Asian Studies also suffered extensive fire and water damage, said another spokesman...
Brookline and Boston firefighters spend four hours battling the blaze, which began about 11:10 p.m. said John Doyle, BU chief of security Doyle said security officers will continue to patrol the building until department workers return next week...
Jack Morse, captain of the Harvard University Police Department, said that Harvard has not experienced a fire of serious magnitude since 1965, when a blaze erupted in a Quincy House suite. A portion of the lower in Memorial hall also caught fire in the 1950s, he said...