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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Well, no. A night's sleep, a warm bright morning and a big grits breakfast begin to focus facts. The breakfast (paper plate, plastic knife and fork) is at the Kountry Korner Restaurant. I've been advised that a trace of old Plains may be found here. And here indeed is more than a trace: eight middle-aged farmers at one long table talking land, bean planting, the future of Taiwan ("You think the Taiwans got a word to say about it? Think 1 billion can't take 17 million any day they want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Strong Old Rhythms of Plains | 2/5/1979 | See Source »

Original plans include a shaft--but not for hauling out the dirt. Somewhere along the way, however, somebody in the MBTA or the company changed his mind, Lashman said. in fact, one estimate said 90 per cent of the dirt would come out of the hole...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Digging In | 2/3/1979 | See Source »

...dirty and noisy, in fact, that it prompted residents of nearby 1705 Mass. Ave--a Harvard-owned co-op building for 13 Dudley House students--to ask Charles P. Whitlock, master of Dudley House, to take steps to make their building habitable...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Digging In | 2/3/1979 | See Source »

...fact is, until only about 15 years ago the United States practiced its own form of apartheid. The experience of dismantling our home-grown version (a task as yet incomplete) obliges us to act on the appeals of those black and white people in South Africa who are struggling to undo the injustices with which they live every day. What Harvard and all colleges and universities in this country can do to help is to divest from those corporations which operate in South Africa. Richard Valelly '80 Third-year graduate student in Government

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ACSR Report: Is It a Sham? | 2/2/1979 | See Source »

...setting without being too blatant about it. This is Dalen's first feature and it shows--there is the slightest hint of home-movie about this film in the camera placings and the colors. But the pacing is superb and an imaginative use of soundtrack keeps you there. In fact, the home-movie quality--the slight hint of innocence about the film, the complete lack of slickness--actually helps the film. The whole thing looks innocent enough, but what you're seeing is awful...

Author: By Tom Hines, | Title: No Credit | 2/2/1979 | See Source »

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