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...CITY as crowded as Cambridge, where open space belongs on the endangered species list, Harvard deserves praise for staunchly preserving its pastoral lot on the corner of Mt. Auburn and Plympton Streets. The University has held fast, in the face of city pressure to erect a parking garage there. Likewise it has shelved earlier proposals to build on the grassy plot...
...Israel will not have to repay-as a "reward" for the new peace agreement. Of the additional $750 million, U.S. officials reckon that $250 million will cover cost increases for military hardware, $150 million will be used to dismantle Israel's old defense lines in the Sinai and erect new ones, and $350 million will compensate Jerusalem for the loss of revenues from the Abu Rudeis oil wells...
...their space effort, launching up to six manned flights a year. After several explosions, they may also make a new effort to send up their huge G-l 6 booster, which is even larger than the U.S. Saturn 5. If it works, the Russian; could use it to erect a large space station, set up lunar bases and perhaps send off manned voyages to other planets...
...even severely strapped Italy and Britain (see chart). What is more, the need for additional goods and technology has never been greater. In the next few years, enormous outlays will be required to develop alternative sources of energy such as nuclear power, build the Alaska pipeline, improve pollution controls, erect more efficient factories and continue rebuilding the decaying cities...
...continue to be a burden, heavy even for the industrial states and crushing for the many poor countries that do not possess oil. He fears that attempts by each nation to cure its own deficit could lead to "a mushrooming of new barriers to trade" that oil importers would erect, not against OPEC but against each other. In his coldly realistic report, Levy predicts it will take at least three or four more years than the banks anticipate-or roughly until 1983-84-before the problem begins to diminish. Meanwhile, his latest analysis suggests...