Word: bunks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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John Denver? Sol Linowitz? Thomas Wyman? President Carter's Commission on World Hunger [Oct. 16]? Bunk! It was Singer-Songwriter Harry Chapin, who is also a member of this commission, who lobbied religiously for more than two years until the reticent Congress and White House finally agreed to its legal creation. If anyone is a prime mover in this effort...
...fire started about 1:30 p.m. when a reading lamp overturned so that the bulb was touching the mattress of the top bunk of a bunk bed, Allison Baird '82 said yesterday...
Baird said she and her roommmate Hilary Nelson '82 were sitting on the bottom bunk, but didn't notice the mattress smouldering above them until another roommate came in and smelled smoke...
...strange society for we Homo sapiens to live in. The traditional civilized way of responding may not be the right way," Charles J. Duffy '77, a proctor in Thayer, says. "Perhaps the greater tension in the Yard may be due to overcrowding. When you live in the bunk above someone else, you are forced to get to know each other more rapidly than you would if you were in the next room over...
Inside, the bomb shelter is a grey hulk of cement and steel. A hole in the ground serves as the toilet. There are about 30 of us crammed shoulder-to-shoulder in our sleeping bags and blankets on the cold, concrete floor. The kibbutz leaders intended to build bunk beds in this shelter, but since the outbreak of the war they have concentrated instead on building several additional new shelters. When we are all squeezed in, someone locks the two ten-inch thick steel doors that are supposed to protect us from the outside world...