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...gesture that caught all the environmental fervor so characteristic of West Germany's Green Party. Minutes after Helmut Kohl had been elected Chancellor last March, Marieluise Beck-Oberdorf, 31, a new Green deputy, handed him a branch from a fir tree that had been exposed to acid rain. With that impulsive act, Beck-Oberdorf breached her idealistic party's agreement against any individual initiative. For her transgression, she was castigated so harshly by her parliamentary colleagues that she burst into tears...
...problem, it seemed, stemmed from physical limitations of the main traffic entry to the Yard--the gate on Mass. Ave. behind Widener Library. Big trucks couldn't fir through it. And Harvard needs lots of big trucks. So they periodically opened up Johnson Gate--the so-called front door to the Yard--to let them in. But careful and through studies revealed that two open gates meant more traffic than one. The answer they said was to open only one gate, which of course meant closing the Widener gate and opening the Johnson Gate full time...
Unlike the CUE Guide's survey of instruction. Whitla's study will evaluate students opinion of all their courses, their extracurricular activities and how they fir together as a whole...
...Christmas season open one month a year just 20 miles north of Cambridge. Maybe your true love would be more interested in the seven varieties of tinsel, 15 shapes and sizes of candles, or dozen-odd varieties of plastic berry and plant clusters--from assorted nuts to fir and cranberry sprays, ranging from...
...brown frame house with the green picket fence sits amid a clump of fir trees on a hill overlooking the writers' colony of Peredelkino, 15 miles southwest of Moscow. There, in the sparsely furnished second-floor study, Boris Pasternak wrote some of the greatest Russian poetry of the century and Doctor Zhivago, the epic saga of Russian life, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1958. On a nearby hillock, surrounded by three pine trees, is the grave where Pasternak was buried after his death from cancer in 1960. Since then, the house...