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...Sulfurous smoke and steam, produced as the fire has heated underground water, have continued to rise through vents in the surface; heat has continued to build. Tom Coddington found in 1979 that the temperature in the underground gasoline storage tanks at his Amoco station had risen to 172° F. He was forced to drain the tanks to avoid an explosion. A few months later Coddington, who lived with his family in an apartment above the station, was overcome by carbon monoxide and rushed to a nearby hospital. Since then he has moved his family to a trailer...
Keenan, who travelled to Washington with Parker L. Coddington, the University's director of government relations, said the Reagan administration "may have tried to do too much too fast" in attempting to limit direct aid to college students and to make it harder to receive federal loan guarantees and interest subsidies...
...patent law revisions would also foster a closer relationship between the University and industry because of the opportunity for more commercial investment in Harvard discoveries, Coddington said, adding that the link could "bear all sorts of fruit in the future...
...Coddington estimated that approximately 20,000 discoveries are "lying fallow" because private industry is hesitant to invest in government-owned patents, to which they cannot obtain exclusive rights...
Whatever changes might result from possible Congressional action will not immediately wipe out Harvard's existing patent agreements with individual federal agencies, Coddington said. "We will continue to deal individually with the agencies, and we will renew our agreements as that becomes necessary, taking into account any new laws...