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...except the company's top executives knew that the bust was coming. Most of the stunned employees at Colony first heard the news on radio or TV. In Battlement Mesa, a half-finished company town built by Exxon, a few furious workers immediately went on a rampage. They overturned garbage cans, tore down company-owned fence and fired shotguns through the windows of their company-owned trailer homes. In the town of Parachute, 15 miles from the Colony site, men piled into O'Leary's Pub and the Old Bank Saloon, where they drank, pounded...
April 22--As the Mass Hall occupation enters its fourth day, a New York anti-war rally draws 40,000 protesters. Police abruptly end B U 's occupation with a bust, in which some 50 students are arrested...
...level, though, it's worth remembering that ours is a different era from that in which the early '70s heroes acted. The class of 1972, a mere six weeks from Commencement at the time of the Mass Hall occupation, was the last class to remember the bloody University Hall bust. That tragedy marred their freshman years, it no doubt left a legacy of antagonism towards Harvard's Establishment which led to the occupation of Derek Bok's office that April morning. Bok, however, was an inappropriate object for their vituperation. The Corporation's kingmakers picked Bok--then dean...
...boom-and-bust profession is once again booming...
Engineering has long been in a boom-and-bust cycle. In the late 1950s, after the first Sputnik was launched, it was a hot field. Then in the early 1970s, with the winding down of the Project Apollo space program and the Viet Nam War, and the cancellation of projects to build an American supersonic commercial airplane, engineers had a tough time finding work. Now glamorous new computer technologies as well as advances in other fields of applied science have made the profession popular once again...