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...Paul H. Buck, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and dean of the Faculty from 1942 to 1953, died suddenly at his home in Cambridge on December 23. Buck, who had been in failing health, was 79 years...
...career at Harvard as a professor, dean, provost and director of the University library spanned 50 years and established Buck as a leading author and administrator...
...fierce contest for big-buck conventions, every major city is adding exhibition space, hotel rooms and other facilities. Though these are the meat and taters of convention planning, other factors have to be considered. Among them: accessibility, ambience, restaurants, night life, theaters, museums, shopping, sightseeing, sports and the degree of local cooperation. Thus New York City and Chicago perennially head the Top Ten convention cities in numbers of conventioneers and dollars spent, but the jostling runners-up reflect demographic change and civic ambition. The field...
...workers' position, while Quebec labor and a number of CLC affiliates strongly supported the strikers. The CLC refused to back the postal workers for "strategic reasons." According to Charles Bauer, CLC director of public relations, the CLC felt "at that time it was a suicidal decision to try to buck the federal government." Essentially, the CLC felt too weak to effectively rally around the beleaguered postal workers, and the national labor organization preferred not to risk its reputation in what was sure to be a defeat. Bauer commented that "to defy federal legislation takes a lot of organizational work...
...less than sober give him anything, he's a phony! He's a Hare fone of those Krishnas, Shit." A man shuffled up to spectator shouted. The Krishna seemed to get a bit Krishna!" The Santa didn't hesitate to identify the Santa and asked him for a buck for "a cup of ruffled under his bright new Santa suit and clean himself as a member of ISKCON and even invited coffee." The Krishna Claus looked self-consciously nylon beard. "Do you believe in Christmas--Christ the questioner to a "vegetarian feast." Krishna at the bills in his bucket...