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...some 20 tons of the chemical, which it imports from the U.S. because the French government prohibits the manufacture of MIC. La Littorale officials proudly point to the facility's extensive security features. The air in the plant is automatically monitored, and should any gas escape from a drum an alarm would call in a crack emergency team. If large enough, the leak would also trigger a water system to deluge and wash down the MIC. Declares Heinz Trautmann, president of La Littorale: "The situation in France is very different from that in India...
...getting to know a place: "You have to drum a town into your head with your feet. You have to walk till you're lost...
Still, sometimes the natural is not enough. To render the coinages, puns, obscure allusions and technical vocabulary that abound in Grass's novels, Manheim consulted a series of specialists. Dentists were interviewed for Local Anaesthetic, stonecutters for The Tin Drum and conchologists for From the Diary of a Snail. On other esoteric points, Manheim prefers to query Grass by letter, rather than participate in seminars that the author periodically conducts in Frankfurt for his translators...
...also overseen several major projects during his 13 years--the Radcliffe merger/nonmerger, the growth of the Kennedy School of Government, the $302 million Medical Area Total Energy Plant nightmare and the $350 million Harvard Campaign, which has seven weeks to drum up $20 million for its goal...
...Alfred V. Covello '54, now a superior court judge in Connecticut who played snare drum for the band, said that alumni shouldn't have too much trouble playing the music because traditional Harvard songs, "never leave...