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...feisty little carrier with rock-bottom prices has more business than its reservations clerks can handle. At People Express, callers sometimes find themselves talking to President Donald Burr. No wonder Burr is glad to pitch in whereever he can: last month, People flew 357,000 paying customers, a whopping 146% increase over traffic a year...
...federal government announces the locations of its Peacekeeper Missiles, and there's one close to home: on the site of the old Burr Hall. Asked to comment, President Reagan says something about "the Kremlin on the Charles...
...panel's most distressing discovery was a stray steel chip, perhaps a burr from a screw, in an exhaust vent of the suit's oxygen supply system. If the fragment had been in the pure oxygen area and caused a spark (by hitting a wall, for example), it might have touched off a catastrophic flash fire, killing Lenoir and possibly ripping a fatal hole in Columbia's sides as well. In fact, a suit did catch fire in a test at Houston two years ago; fortunately no one was wearing it. It was so incinerated that...
...basic role of government should be to refrain from interference with individuals, except to protect them from force and fraud." Shipman told the nine students who gathered at Burr Hall...
While MATEP coughed and wheezed in Boston. Harvard raised another cloud of dust back home in Cambridge. The University undertook a massive renovation campaign that so far includes facelifts for two of the River Houses, refurbishing Sever Hall, rebuilding the football stadium, and knocking down Burr Hall to make way for a new wing of the Fogg Art Museum...