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A lot of you may have been worried by rumors that Harvard is planning to demolish MEMORIAL HALL. Well, relax. According to Richard G. Leahy, associate dean of the Faculty for resources and planning, the old white elephant will probably be standing when we are all dead and gone. On...
His project for the Great Hall in Berlin, with its 1,000-ft.-high dome (16 times the volume of Michelangelo's cupola on St. Peter's) may look to a sophisticated eye like a cross between a white elephant and a cookie cutter. But had it been...
There he participated in a warm ceremony welcoming 140 men and women of 37 nationalities who were about to become American citizens. Pat Nixon gave each new citizen an American-flag pin like the one the President wears in his lapel. Then all-including Candidate Smith-adjourned to a buffet...
Pink Bath Salts. While the new African woman is out to change her society, other women have risen to prominence in the traditional power structure. One of the best known of these is Honoria Bailer Caulker of Sierra Leone, who in 1961 was elected paramount chief of the Shenge district...
Who but Ralph Nader would liken a pickup truck carrying a camper box around a tight turn to a circus elephant with one leg raised? Or another pickup in an S-turn to a round-bottomed dinghy during a squall? Who at the same time would warn that baby shampoos...