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...growing up." Scott N. Fletcher `84, a member of the Dins, said Thursday. Last spring marked the first time that the Dean of Students` Office included the four-year-old group in negotiations to determine which of Harvard's four singing ensembles will perform at Sanders Theatre during the busiest weekends of the year, Fletcher added...
...Jones industrial average scored its largest one-day and one-week gams on record, finishing at 869.29, up 81.24 points in only five days. The market had its busiest day ever (132.69 million shares traded) and its second busiest ever (95.9 million shares). Before last week's action, daily volume this year had been averaging about 52.3 million shares. The week's total volume of 455 million shares shattered the old record of 329 million set in March. In fact, more shares were sold last week than in the entire year of 1953. Said Samuel Kachel, a broker...
With new recruits coming so slowly out of the classrooms, many controllers working in the towers complain that their hours and work load are too strenuous. At the nation's 22 busiest airports, some controllers may work as much as ten hours a day, six days a week. They contend that many of the 500 military controllers brought into the towers to help out after the strike were not qualified to handle heavy commercial traffic; others complain about the inexperience of controllers transferred from smaller airports to major ones. "We're getting them from places like Charleston...
...heady days of Lech Walesa's Solidarity labor movement seemed to return to Poland. Heeding an appeal broadcast by the union's clandestine radio station, Warsaw motorists honked their horns at the stroke of noon and snarled traffic for 15 minutes in the city's busiest intersection. Several thousand onlookers, many flashing victory signs, cheered the drivers with chants of "Solidarity" and "Free Walesa" as part of the suspended union's efforts to protest the imposition of martial law five months before...
...only did salt serve to flavor and preserve food, it made a good antiseptic, which is why the Roman word for these salubrious crystals (sal) is a first cousin to Salus, the goddess of health. Of all the roads that led to Rome, one of the busiest was the Via Salaria, the salt route, over which Roman soldiers marched and merchants drove oxcarts full of the precious crystals up the Tiber from the salt pans at Ostia. A soldier's pay-consisting in part of salt-came to be known as solarium argentum, from which we derive the word...