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Surprising because it's chic thes to dump on college life and life at Harvard particular. Aloof senior professors, incomp underage section leaders, socetting, dog food in the dining halls--you've the horror stories. Enquire magazine wen fac as to generalize in a September 198 ssay, "The Trouble with Harvard" that al all undergraduates here distinctly unhappy...
...addition, American steelmakers have been skimping on the capital invest ments required to keep their factories up to date and efficient. Many outdated plants have been in operation too long and are badly in need of modernization and new investment in order to compete with fac tories in Japan and West Germany...
Born in the Maine fac tory town of Lewiston in 1877, he was the youngest of nine children of a poor English-born cotton spinner. His mother died when he was eight, and the family dispersed. His father remarried and moved to Cleveland, where Marsden eventually joined him. "I had a childhood vast with terror and surprise," he wrote later. Shy and insecure, he began to paint. He received a scholarship to the Cleveland School of Art, where he so impressed one trustee that she offered him a five-year stipend to study in New York. He took classes...
...missiles, the South Vietnamese F-5s and A-37s managed to blow up Luat's command headquarters. Meanwhile, the 23rd Division's forward command post had been destroyed by sapper charges. For a time, the only ARVN communication with the outside world was provided by an FAC spotter plane circling overhead. Trapped in the city were nine Americans, official U.S. Consular Representative Paul A. Struharik and eight missionaries...
...There will be time, there will be time/ To prepare a face to meet the fac es that you meet." So wrote T.S. Eliot in The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock...