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Soyuz 6 has special welding equipment on board apparently to be used to construct a manned orbiting platform after the thrice vessels link up in space. Some of the cosmonauts could stay behind to man the station while the others returned to earth and new crews could be sent up as relief, American experts theorized...
During last April's crisis, the Design School group called upon the University to build 3000 new housing units in Cambridge. Two weeks ago, Harvard announced plans to construct 389 housing units exclusively for the use of non-Harvard residents of Cambridge. Plans for another 600 to 700 units-most of which will probably be for Harvard personnel-are currently being developed...
Arthur Penn's new film, Alice's Restaurant, is an attempt to construct, of all things, a comedy around this sadness. It works. It works so well that I started crying about halfway through the movie and didn't really recover until the next morning. I don't even remember the last time I cried for a second in a theatre, but I had to cry during Alice's Restaurant. I had to cry to keep from going insane...
...group studying the operation of research in American universities confronted its leader with the charge that he was manipulating them. The resulting discussion yielded great insight into the often manipulative workings of researchers. Another group, studying "Legitimacy and Authority," was getting nowhere with intellectual discussion and decided to construct a psychodrama. The device yielded vivid non-intellectual insights which they then successfully integrated into their theoretical models...
Last April's protest of the planned razing of the homes in this area led to the Corporation decision to construct 1100 housing units in Boston. Rose and Associates is the firm favored by Edward G. Gruson, assistant to President Pusey for Community Affairs, to handle the construction, but no final decision has been made...