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Lamont - Any discussion of libraries has to begin with Lamont, especially any discussion of libraries with an atmosphere that resembles the inside of a coffin. The basic problem with Lamont, besides the fact that the lights are dim and the walls are ugly, is that a lot of people around here wear Topsiders, which, when in contact with the Lamont floors, create squeaks that would drown out Ella Fitzgerald...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: The Good, The Bad and the Pusey | 1/12/1976 | See Source »

...before the Crimson could nail the visitor's coffin shut and bring in the bench to lay fair Wellesley to rest, the suburbanites made their move. Slowly the lead was down to six and then to four. Radcliffe's press was no longer effective and the Crimson began losing out underneath the boards to the stronger Wellesley forwards...

Author: By Richard J. Doherty, | Title: 'Cliffe Cagers Fall Short; Wellesley Ekes Out Win | 12/5/1975 | See Source »

...School faculty contacted yesterday, however, said that Stevens's appointment would significantly change the policies of the Supreme Court. Vern Countryman, Royall Professor of Law, said President Nixon's four appointments to the high court have already created the most important changes. "This just puts the nail in the coffin," he said...

Author: By Marc Witkin, | Title: Law Professors' Views Mixed On Supreme Court Nomination | 12/2/1975 | See Source »

...Jordan's King Hussein, and Monaco's Prince Rainier. Like the rest of the week's solemn pageantry, the details had been planned well in advance−many of them by Franco himself. After the funeral Mass in Madrid's packed Plaza de Oriente, his coffin was escorted from the palace by the red-bereted Guardia del Generalisimo, marching on each side of the casket, to the Arch of Victory a mile away. There the body was transferred from a horse-drawn gun carriage to a hearse for the 29-mile drive north along the Coru...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: The Start of the Post-Franco Era | 12/1/1975 | See Source »

...demanded that her theatrical fees be paid in gold. "I feel I know her," says Jackson, on the set of Sarah. "She refused to be stifled or live her life to other people's conventions." The Divine Sarah, in fact, liked to take naps in a satin-lined coffin to remind herself of life's transience. Jackson has no qualms about repeating that scene. Says she: "I've been in coffins before, starting from when I played Ophelia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 20, 1975 | 10/20/1975 | See Source »

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