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Soviet and U.S. leaders hurled bitter charges across the Atlantic. The Strategic Arms Limitation Talks seemed all but stalled. NATO leaders put the final touches on plans to build up their forces. On many fronts and in many ways, it was an extraordinary week in foreign affairs, one in which numerous strands of tension wove together, pulling relations between the East and West to their lowest point in years...
Striving mightily to build the Great Society, Califano helped detonate this compassion explosion; his office churned out some 150 bills a year, and Congress passed about 100. "I can't remember them
...basic business of oil and gas. The company spent more than $200 million last year in stepped-up onshore exploration in the U.S. It also paid $314 million last June to acquire twelve drilling tracts in the Gulf of Mexico. Gulf spent $400 million to $500 million to build its Cedar Bayou ethylene plant near Houston; it opened last year but, say industry sources, has never operated at more than 60% of capacity, causing a substantial drain on Gulfs petrochemical earnings. Gulf also acquired for $455 million Kewanee Industries, a specialty chemical firm. In all, the company's 1977 capital...
Wyatt hopes a system that integrates all the marketing operations will encourage more Harvard affiliated personnel to live in Cambridge, which might improve faculty-student relations. "If everybody lives in Cambridge, then faculty can have students over to their houses, and we will be able to build a tighter community." Wyatt's words echo the thoughts of former president Nathan M. Pusey '28, who wrote in the late '50s, as Harvard was beginning its expansionist era and purchasing a great deal of property in Cambridge and Boston, that he believed that Harvard's future was closely tied to the concept...
...that time, the council passed a one-year moratorium on construction in a limited part of Observatory Hill that excluded the area in which Harvard planned to build a gymnasium. It did, however, temporarily halt construction...