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...Soivet Union at the time to discuss exisiting exchange programs between Harvard and libraries in that country. The subcommittee will be meeting in mid-April to discuss possible actions, among them sending volunteers to Leningrad and initiating efforts in the United States to microfilm and collect replacement texts in the United States...
Towing is not the only way Cambridge's parking situation generates money for the city. Parking fines will generate about $4.5 million this year for the City of Cambridge, Teso says. Collecting that revenue has become easier in recent years, because the city got the rights in 1982 to collect fines itself. Previously the city traffic courts had collected the fines, but the court had run into a huge backlog, according to Teso...
...Wynn, executive officer of a half-black company pinned down when the Chinese swarmed over the Yalu River in November 1950. When ammunition ran out, Wynn waded into battle, throwing rocks and canned C rations at the enemy. He was finally dropped by a Chinese grenade but survived to collect a Distinguished Service Cross. The maligned 24th Infantry, Blair points out, arrived from Japan 17 days after the North Korean attack, and within a week had taken the town of Yechon in what some observers regarded as the first U.S. victory...
...decision should also discourage a trend that has led plaintiffs who feel offended by the media to try to collect damages for injury -- to their right of privacy, for instance, or their feelings -- when they cannot make the more difficult case for libel. But the court said last week that even when public figures claim emotional injury, they still must meet the complex "actual malice" standard devised for libel in the landmark 1964 decision New York Times Co. v. Sullivan. In that case, the court said that a public figure must show that a publication knew its statements were false...
...second week of the great chinook. He feared they might soften halfway down the mountain under the weight of his incredible confidence. Immediately posting the best time for the first run, Tomba waited only long enough to see that Pirmin Zurbriggen was slower before telephoning home to Bologna (collect). "You have seen Tomba once," he advised his parents. "But now, for the second run, you must turn on all three TV sets and watch Tomba win three times in parallel...