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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Since the system was installed last summer in response to a Cambridge City Council ordinance requiring smoke detectors in every room and hallway, even dust and cigarette smoke have triggered the House's hallway smoke detectors. "They've gone off more times than we can count." Master William H. Bossert '59 said yesterday...
Watching the pair during a game, there's not much to distinguish them by. Both are typical Crimson starters--under six feet tall and only a little more than 150 lbs., darting past bigger opponents in a game in which sheer size and strength count for a lot. Both have been instrumental in Harvard's rise to the second spot in New England, behind archrival Brown...
After a long count, Jim Thompson claims victory in Illinois...
...that rain and dampness had moistened the ballots, requiring them to be dried out in ovens in Evanston, just north of the city. ("There's no allegation of impropriety here," insisted Cook County Clerk Stanley Kusper Jr. "We've just got a lot of wet ballots.") The count began in earnest on Wednesday, the day, as wags point out, when the real politicking traditionally begins in Chicago. Before anyone could say Richard Daley, the city election board announced it was being hampered by repeated breakdowns of its new computer punch-card system...
...German-American relations: I believe that in the course of the past few years European-American relations have been defined too much in a military way. Of course it is important to talk about missiles. It is also important to count arms. However, NATO is in the first place a community of ideas, not a community of arms. As a matter of fact, the community of arms is there to defend the community of ideas. The important point is that we have common ideas regarding human rights, civil rights, our moral values, our moral laws. These have to be defended...