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...Steel support rods inside the columns snapped like raw spaghetti under the multimillion-pound weight of the four-lane upper roadway. Some construction experts last week expressed outrage that the steel rods inside the columns had not been reinforced to help them withstand a powerful quake. Said Peter Lehrer, co-chairman of the Lehrer McGovern Bovis construction firm, which managed the restoration of the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island: "There is no excuse for what happened on the Nimitz. We have had the technology to guard against this sort of collapse for years...
Members of the student committee that organized the weekend's event said they were pleased with the results thus far. "It all went very, very, smoothly," said Bridget E. Mahoney '90, co-chairman of the junior parents weekend committee...
Sponsored by the Harvard Foundation for Race Relations, the event began a series of round-table discussions aimed at promoting "constructive dialogue on issues of race and culture," said moderator Carlos Watson '91, co-chairman of the Foundation's student advisory committee...
...hearing on defense issues, member Caspar Weinberger was up to his old game, calling for increased spending. Democratic Co-Chairman Robert Strauss took him to task for proposing new outlays without providing fresh income. Strauss reminded the former Defense Secretary that members had sworn an "oath to deal with the deficit." Weinberger retorted that there was nothing "so sacred" about Social Security that should prevent it from being tapped for defense. An outraged AFL-CIO president Lane Kirkland vowed to oppose any such moves, with street protests if necessary. The divisions are likely to worsen after the presidential election, since...
Jimmy Fund Co-Chairman James M. Frates '89 says that he hopes house members will increase the numbers of non-Eliot residents involved in future versions of the show by telling their friends about it and encouraging them to see the exhibition...