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...Boston Elevated power house, located where Eliot House now stands. On March 3, 1914 the Cambridge Board of Aldermen granted Harvard permission to construct a steam tunnel to Smith and Gore Halls and from there snake up Holyoke Street across Mt. Auburn and up Linden Street to connect with Widener. There were unpalatable strings attached, however, requiring that the City do all the constructional work at the University's cost...
...University-wide broadcasting network will soon connect campus buildings with each other and with the Lowell Institute's new FM station, WGHB, it was learned yesterday. A high fidelity telephone cable has already been set up between WGBH's studios in Symphony Hall and the Busch Reisinger Museum of Germanic Culture...
Ford's home was honeycombed with tunnels, where he could escape or hide in event of danger. When Bennett built a home near Ann Arbor, Ford got him to build a tower with a secret door "as an escape for the children," and connect it with a hidden tunnel in the yard. "However," writes Bennett, "the secret exit was never used. At the end of the tunnel, I kept my lion and tiger cages...
...against his opponent,† stabbing with his lightning left, dancing away from Turpin's awkward counters, bouncing back with his famed flurry of rights and lefts, to take the first four rounds on points. But somehow his legs had lost their old spring, his long lefts failed to connect. Turpin shook off the punches that did land, and began crowding in. Hooking when he should have jabbed, jabbing when he should have hooked, his head sometimes a craning target, sometimes sunk between his shoulders, he moved onto the offensive. In the seventh, Robinson was plainly tiring; in the eighth...
Scribbled in a notebook among the Canadian spy papers was the name Fuchs, but for a long time nobody thought to connect the name significantly with German-born Klaus Fuchs, an anti-Hitler refugee who was high in Anglo-American atom councils. Four years passed before Klaus Fuchs was arrested in England (and sentenced to 14 years). His confession led to the arrest of Courier Harry Gold in Philadelphia. The trail from Harry Gold led to the Rosenbergs, Greenglass and Soviet Spy Master Anatoli Yakovlev, who was ostensibly a Soviet vice consul in New York...