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...take the matter to the courts. "It was really the last resort," he explained. "The homeless had no friends in government, formed no constituency. Someone had to help." With the support of his firm, Hayes brought suit on behalf of six men, including one whose residence was a cardboard box on Park Avenue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Off the Street and Out of the Cold | 2/8/1982 | See Source »

Radiation safety officials said a cardboard box containing a vial of phosphorous 32 and one of carbon 14 was either lost or stolen last Wednesday. The Diamondback, the university student newspaper, reported last week. The phosphorous is "hazardous" if it is removed from its lead cannister...

Author: By Compiled FROM College newspapers, | Title: Radioactive Material | 2/6/1982 | See Source »

...soup. I was about to eat it when I noticed something strange on my spoon. It looked sort of like a large gray noodle. I had never seen a gray noodle before, so I looked more closely at this substance, and discovered that it was actually a piece of cardboard. This was rather disturbing. You see, when I left in August to come here, cardboard was not considered food. I suspect that cardboard is still not considered food, but it apparently is served in the Union...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Rare Treat | 1/14/1982 | See Source »

...THERE IS ANY FLAW in Peter Sellars's recasting of Orlando it is his tendency towards cryptic, coyly symbolic staging. Why, for instance, is there so much rolling around? Why does Zoroastro mug and wave at the audience incessantly? And why are all those cardboard boxes littering the stage in the last act? No doubt each of these elements has its place in Sellars's masterplan, but too often, his is an aggressively private vision...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stellar Handel | 1/13/1982 | See Source »

During every Harvard home game, spectators may enter a half-court shooting contest sponsored by Crimson Travel. Mr. Henry Zimmerman '25, Harvard's widely recognized Most Loyal Fan of the Century, chooses three names from a cardboard box, and three people usually embarrass themselves by tossing airballs...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: The Beloit Bomber | 1/11/1982 | See Source »

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