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Besides real estate tax the city will collect,the Pudding also owes money to the University forsteam heat and to a bank for mortgage payments onwhich it has fallen behind...

Author: By James E. Schwartz, | Title: Hasty Pudding Close to Deal for Sale Of Holyoke St. Clubhouse to Harvard | 8/8/1986 | See Source »

President Kennedy referred to Harriman as a "separate sovereignty," and in truth he operated as a kind of independent fiefdom, communicating with other sovereigns on his own terms. He acquired friendships with powerful world leaders the way other men collect stamps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Establishment's Envoy William Averell Harriman: 1891-1986 | 8/4/1986 | See Source »

...change money, take a trip, stay in a hotel, or go to the bathroom. If your form says you only have 100 kyats but you come to the hotel with 500, they know you've been playing dirty, slap your wrists and send you back to "Go," do not collect...

Author: By Ariela J. Gross, | Title: A Harvard Traveler's Seven Burmese Days | 7/29/1986 | See Source »

While 10,000 registered voters' signatures can secure ballot status for the most bumbling of Republican gubernatorial candidates, the Massachusetts Election Commission required her to collect 40,000 as a third-party candidate. She failed to do so, and was disqualified...

Author: By Martha A. Bridegam, | Title: Punishing Nonconformism | 7/22/1986 | See Source »

...testing is due to expire next month, few observers expect the Soviets to resume nuclear tests immediately, which leaves the U.S. scientists with little to monitor. Moreover, the U.S. already has in place a worldwide network of stations that accurately monitor Soviet tests. Even so, the American observers should collect invaluable data on the seismological characteristics of the Soviet Union and on the Soviets' ability to read tremors from U.S. nuclear tests. The project's primary goal, said Archambeau, is to "demonstrate that on-site inspection is feasible and should be no obstacle to a test moratorium." Added M.I.T...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Public Squabbles, Private Deal | 7/14/1986 | See Source »

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