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...WILL FLY in form Denver in a couple of weeks and the cab driver will ask you where you're going to school and overcharge you and the janitor in the basement of Matthews will look down a list of names and hand you a key. Your roommate may beat you to the single and your proctor may have very little of import to say but you'll have your very own piece of Harvard real estate and your own little corner of the Yard...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: The Business of Harvard | 8/15/1980 | See Source »

WHEN YOUR CAB turns the corner on Storrow Drive and you can see Back Bay and the Hancock tower, take a look to the right and father back and you'll probably see the power plant's tower. It really doesn't look like much from a distance but up close it looks big and solid, like it will stand there for another 345 years. And some day it may air condition the laboratory where the scientists fighting World War III will find the right nerve gas and people will look to Harvard for the answer...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: The Business of Harvard | 8/15/1980 | See Source »

Keef hails a cab...

Author: By Paul A. Attanasio, | Title: The Man Who Loved Women | 8/1/1980 | See Source »

...office for motion picture and TV development. At New York University, when an Israeli professor and his ten graduate students, all Israelis, decided to conduct classes in Hebrew, a dean asked, "Is this Tel Aviv University or is it N. Y.U&#quot; When a senior Israeli politician sought a cab at Kennedy Airport recently, he encountered a score of Israeli drivers. Annoyed at seeing all those Emigres, he went down the line and found a Lebanese. Israelis have no trouble finding jobs. They usually speak at least some English and often come with money to invest, accumulated from the sale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Cabbies and Millionaires | 6/30/1980 | See Source »

...space above the net than anyone in the history of the game. Says Tennis Coach Vic Braden: "Bjorn can make the ball drop so fast it will untie your shoelaces. If you want to get back far enough to take it on the bounce, you've gotta call a cab...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Tennis Machine | 6/30/1980 | See Source »

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