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...Corridor living encouraged a more informal and communal life than that found at the River Houses. Ellen Kellman '76, now pursuing a joint degree in public policy and law, says, "When people hang out with large groups in the halls, they do weird things." This self-mocking humor inspired such institutions as the North House Annual Christmas Matzoh Ball and the pre-exam Quad Howl...
...known that he planned to announce "drastic steps" to end the 81-day coal strike. Two hours earlier, however, the President had just joined in a party honoring early campaign supporters in the Blue Room of the White House. Suddenly he got a message. Striding down the corridor to take his place before cameras in the West Wing, he briskly announced that the long ordeal was probably over. A "voluntary settlement" had been reached between the 165,000 striking United Mine Workers and the 130-member Bituminous Coal Operators Association. Said the President to the workers who must now ratify...
...YORK--"We're a year away," Columbia basketball coach Tom Penders said, standing in the corridor outside the visiting team's locker room in the IAB last Saturday night before his team played Harvard. After watching the Lions dissect the Crimson's defense with 17-24 shooting in the first half, Penders may have wondered whether he was a year off in his calculations...
...formerly presented only minor problems, since they were flown from their staging area in Libya over an unsuspecting Sudan. Until they were expelled in May, Russian advisers in Khartoum had tampered with the Sudanese radar network to create a blind spot in its coverage,'in effect creating a "corridor" through which Soviet planes flew undetected...
...festive decorations caught fire, turning the 120 ft.-long hallway into a tunnel of flames. Aroused by a shrill fire alarm, residents on the lower floors rushed down three stairways to safety. Some students on the fourth floor prudently stayed in their rooms, which were separated from the corridor by fire-resistant doors; they were plucked to safety by fire fighters on ladders. But others panicked, threw open their doors and plunged into the inferno in a desperate sprint for the stairs. Two oeds leaped to their deaths on the frozen ground 40 ft. below. Said one sobbing Providence student...