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...sold the books for students and kept 15 percent of the profit. Although most students who gave their books were hoping to make money, members of Dorm Crew donated a few books to the sale...
Brandenburg says three physicists, a large crew of technical people and four engineers were devoted to the SSC project, one of four projects done in the High Energy Physics Laboratory. A handful of other Harvard physicists had worked on theoretical aspects of the machine, including Higgins Professor of Physics Sheldon L. Glashow and Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics Howard Georgi...
Robert DeFeo is grim faced. The L.A. city fire department battalion chief would like to be saving lives, but instead is filling and refilling the coroner's station wagon on perpetual duty in the driveway of Northridge Meadows. DeFeo's crew is using buzz saws and jackhammers and Swiss search dogs, and so far he has turned up nine corpses, each crushed while in bed. The coroner's car leaves but always returns. The heroics occurred earlier, when residents pried neighbors from tight spaces or let them down from the roof with knotted fire hoses. The place is crawling with...
Reagon first envisioned a series on black spiritual music 15 years ago. It took five years to produce, at a cost of $1 million, quite a sum for radio (most of the funding came from the National Endowment for the Humanities). The production crew unearthed rare archival material and conducted more than 250 hours of interviews. Some of the older gospel singers interviewed died before the series was completed, and that brought home to Reagon the importance of her efforts: "I realized I was creating a record of a part of society that would probably be passed over...
...Hollywood made "controversial" films about lynching. But the victim was always innocent; no one dared say that even a guilty man deserved due process. In 1947, when Elia Kazan was making Gentleman's Agreement, about a writer who discovers anti-Semitism while pretending to be Jewish, a crew member told Kazan he got the moral: We should be nice to Jews because they might turn out to be Gentiles...