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Harvard has signed two construction contracts-one for the School of Education's Gutman Library, the other for an extension to Paine Hall-which require the builder to hire between 19 and 23 per cent of his workers from minority groups...
...NEST BUILDER. Perhaps to prove that he is not hopelessly square in the old Dickensian way, Pritchett enters the homosexual scene with a funny story of two interior decorators-funny without sneers or sniggers. It offers neither tea and sympathy nor pot and empathy. Eventually, fox-hunting girl redesigns one decorator...
...Staples. Murdoch has raised the sales of both newspapers not by journalistic excellence or innovation but rather by stressing anew two staples of Fleet Street's so-called popular press, sex and sport. A major circulation builder for the News of the World was the serialization of Call Girl Christine Keeler's autobiography (TIME, Oct. 10). Murdoch's Sun dawned with a four-page installment of Jacqueline Susann's mechanically randy novel, The Love Machine; the main front-page story concerned a trainer drugging race horses...
Died. Ole Singstad, 87, master tunnel builder; in Manhattan. Beginning with New York's Holland Tunnel in 1927, the Norwegian-born Singstad designed and built dozens of underwater highways, including New York's Lincoln and Brooklyn Battery tunnels, and the 1¾-mile Baltimore Harbor Tunnel. What made them all possible was his ingenious ventilation system, which sucks out deadly exhaust fumes with fans so efficiently that it has become standard the world over...
Know thyself, said the ancients. Man cannot know himself, say the moderns. He is the enigma of enigmas, a brute wrapped in reason, an innocent ensnared in sensuality, a master builder of societies and civilizations who wrecks them like a frustrated child. This is the underlying theme of British Playwright Edward Bond's Narrow Road to the Deep North, which is having its U.S. premiere run at Boston's Charles Playhouse...