Word: factly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although the Cuban crisis of 1962 proved to the U.S.S.R. the need for increased maritime capability, Stalin had earlier recognized this fact during the Spanish Civil War of 1936-39. He had been prevented from supporting the Loyalists by the threat of opposing naval forces. The major naval construction program he initiated withered after the German invasion of June 1941, but in July 1945 Stalin ordered the building of a mighty fleet to protect and support Soviet interests...
...predicated on the belief that Moscow is more afraid of riots by Polish workers over low wages and high food prices than of Brzezinski's "mischiefmaking" in Poland, and therefore the Kremlin has little choice but to allow the East Europeans to turn westward for trade. That economic fact of life leads Washington to calculate that it has enough latitude to continue?and perhaps expand?its new East Europe policy...
...Cambridge. The situation in the early '70s was ironic. Harvard could barely find enough residents to occupy Peabody Terrace, but at the same time, there were many people who wanted to live in Cambridge, but could not find the space. Adding to the problem's complexity is the fact that while the University manages the graduate student housing, the Hunneman Real Estate Co. maintains and markets the University's 100 open housing apartment buildings. These are rented by non-Harvard people, like the tenants at 58 Garfield St. But the biggest problem Wyatt sees is that no one University official...
...projects, George Putnam Jr. '49, Harvard treasurer, and Robin Schmidt, vice president for government and community affairs, plus Wyatt, Zeckhouser and O'Brien. The board will basically serve as a liason to the University, while the corporation members will be responsible for the actual management, Wyatt says, justifying the fact that none of the board members is specially trained in real estate...
...halted the operations of Bill Dillon and Co., an undergraduate-run investment firm, pending an investigation of charges of fraud and other business irregularities. The state order included charges that William P. Dillon '79, president of the company, represented the firm as an independent business when it was in fact a branch office of a larger securities firm. Dillon denied several of the state charges, but admitted that some errors might have been made "inadvertently." "The business was growing too fast. The people working with me were taking more initiative than they should have," he said...