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...sued for alimony. Says she: "The only future marriage I would even remotely consider would be with Paul Getty." But she admits that her own rapturous intensity simply "exhausted" most of her mates. "Many men." she protests, "find their fathers in women. I am the least likely father symbol extant...
YALE Library recently received one of the most important eartographical treasures in the world, a late 15th century map showing the geographical concepts of Christopher Columbus before the discovery of America. It is signed by German map-maker Hourious Martellus and may be the major source of the earliest extant globe in the world made at Nuremberg in 1492 by Martin Behatm. Dated cirea 1489, and measuring six by four feet, Yale's Martellus map is the only one of the pre-Columbian world to show the famous island of Japan in the location where Columbus believed...
These mumblings are not only inadequate but lamentably unimaginative. The Cheever Report's emphasis upon preserving extant balances within Harvard utterly failed to explain why the status quo should be considered ideal and showed no conception of ways in which Federal aid might be used to create new and more flexible patterns of learning and research. The rising stars of American educations, such as Brekeley and Michigan, are reaching greatness by effective use of government, are reaching greatness by effective use of government support. If Harvard intends to eschew such innovation, it must think ahead with sufficient clarity to vince...
Next week the Boston Redevelopment Authority will begin demolition of an historic row of bookshops along Cornhill in downtown Boston. The Oldest extant book store in America, browsing ground of Emerson, the elder Homes, and Whittier, will yield to a new Government Center. And while a few citizens struggle to maintain some evidences of the past, the rest of Boston stands idly...
...Boston Redevelopment Authority will begin demolition next week of the historic book shop row along Cornhill between Scollay Square and Fanueil Hall in downtown Boston. The buildings now slated for eventual destruction include the Brattle Book Shop, formerly Closeworthy's, the oldest extant book store in America...