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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard is acknowledged to have the strongest particle physics department in the country, and Glashow and Weinberg are its two greatest luminaries. But even so, their selection is something of an anomaly. In the first place, the Swedish Academy generally doesn't award the prize to a theoretical physicist until...

Author: By James Aisenberg, | Title: An Invitation To Stockholm | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

Freshman star Darlene Beckford led the Harvard women's cross country team to a respectable eighth-place finish in yesterday's Eastern Division 1 Championship at Westchester, Pa. The perenially powerful pacers from Penn State topped the field with an untouchable mark of 36 points.

Author: By Jack A. Laschever, | Title: Harriers Nab Eighth Place at Easterns | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

A series of more exciting events, moreover, has combined to take any edge off an election that was hackneyed the day it began. After the preliminary was over, The News was The Pope and it stayed that way until the pontiff left the country. A couple of weeks later, the...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Joe Timilty's Lonely Campaign | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

Cambridge is the last (and first) bastion of strict proportional representation (residents affectionately call it PR) in the country. To understand the system, let's follow a hypothetical voter through the electoral process--from the voting booth to the floor of the gymnasium, where a corps of veteran pollsters gather...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Proportional Representation -- Voting By Number | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

"It's an issue in a lot of densely populated cities around the country that all start to look like Manhattan," City Councilor Francis H. Duehay, who sponsored the question, says. He adds that possible regulations would invoke height and setback limitations to encourage appropriate development.

Author: By Elizabeth H. Wiltshire, | Title: The Referendum: Gauging City Sentiment | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

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