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...plant into a bus factory. Others thought solar panels would correct the energy losses. Still others said to forget about the plant and transform Hamtramck into a free trade zone or a tourist attraction, like a Polish-theme park. "What Hamtramck does," said one participant, Librarian of Congress Daniel Boorstin, "will be an example for the rest of the nation." Added University of Pittsburgh Historian Samuel Hays somewhat pessimistically: "It's almost as though you're seeing the death of the manufacturing city right here. And my point is: don't resurrect it. Why try to rebuild...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Michigan: Goodbye, Dodge Main | 2/11/1980 | See Source »

Crimson editors assisting in the coverage of the Pope's visit include Robert O. Boorstin, Susan K. Brown, Alexandra D. Korry, Oren S. Makov, Amy B. McIntosh, William E. McKibben, and Elizabeth H. Wiltshire...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: A City Awaits A Pope | 10/2/1979 | See Source »

...lost the name game. Moreover, said Tucker, if Stein & Day did not go along with the verdict, the firm could be excluded from the library's cataloguing program. "The bureaucratic mind gone mad," sputtered Publisher Sol Stein in an angry letter of appeal to Librarian of Congress Daniel Boorstin. "I beg you to stop the flow of bureaucratic idiocy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Name Calling | 8/27/1979 | See Source »

There is no place in the reporting of serious news and the relaying of intelligent commentary for personal vendettas. In the May 21 Crimson you reported that during a meaningless softball game "short-fielder Bob Boorstin committed three embarassing errors to let in a pair of unearned runs in the seventh...

Author: By John T. Kelly, | Title: On Softball | 5/25/1979 | See Source »

...scribes' mound-man Steve Herzenberg twirled masterful two-hit ball, but lost his shutout bid when short-fielder Bob Boorstin committed three embarrassing errors to let in a pair of unearned runs in the seventh...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Two Squads Name Captains | 5/21/1979 | See Source »

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