Word: dexterous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Consider the precedents this building sets for the Yard: Jordan Marsh has long wanted a Cambridge site. The Golden Arches of one-all-too-familiar franchise would certainly brighten the Dexter Gate. And HoJo's orange roof would assuredly rise only nine feet above the ground. Picture the parades of electric golf carts commuting daily across the river through Harvard Square and replacing the Buildings and Grounds trucks that will no longer have access to the Yard, once the new library narrows passage between Houghton and Widener...
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...vast corporation that did $3.6 billion worth of business last year, and now ranks 18th on FORTUNE'S roster of the largest U.S. industrial companies. Du Font's base remains in tiny Delaware, 47th in population among the states. That disparity in size intrigued Economist Lewis Anthony Dexter, who studied the situation in 1963 and concluded: "The elephant takes care not to dance among the chickens." It also intrigued Ralph Nader, who feels otherwise. In a report released last week, a group of his Raiders argued that the elephant not only dances with the chickens; it tramples them...
BROWN-Rhode Island--Most of the Brown student body is up bright and early on a Saturday morning, anxious to hurry over for good seats at Aldrich-Dexter Field. Unfortunately for gridiron players, the soccer team plays at that field. There's no soccer game this morning, so before the freshman class and the Brown band, which gets credit for being there, the Bruins begin a rebuilding year. Brown is always rebuilding, and they usually rebuild to the tune of two victories. This is one of them...
Threatened by the effect the exposure of the FBI information would have had upon his career, the Martin Luther King of Montgomery, the 26-year-old pastor of Dexter, would unquestionably have kept his compromise with the system. He would have opted for protecting his name and that of his family in the eyes of the black puritans of his congregation and his class. But in the years that had passed, he had collected more than merely a Nobel and nine arrests. He had acquired a sense of responsibility to a greater constituency, one unbounded by color, class, or nationality...