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...blacks, infuriated by the Administration's response, decided to occupy Massachusetts Hall, the building which houses the offices of the President and his staff. At about 5:30 a.m. the day after the Corporation's decision was announced, 35 students entered Mass Hall through a first-floor window and said they would not leave until Harvard sold its stock...
There are a few exceptions, however, Male students have been placed in first-floor suites in the Yard dorms "for security reasons" according to Jay Newman, a third-year graduate student in Sociology and one of Holworthy's summer proctors. Marshall Cohen added that this measure was also intended to help reduce peeping-tomism, a perennial summer school problem...
...Harrisburg, the capital of Pennsylvania, was virtually cut off by the floodwaters from the Susquehanna, where the river flow was put at 550 billion gallons a day-the highest in nearly two centuries of record keeping. Governor Milton Shapp's $2.4 million executive mansion was flooded to its first-floor ceiling. Electric power failed; hospitals resorted to emergency generators. With roads, railways and the air port under water, President Nixon chose the only quick way to get there on his inspection tour of the damage: he helicoptered in from Camp David, Md., after a flying survey of flood damage...
YELLOW SUBMARINE also made Segal something of a celebrity on the Yale campus. Yalies would bring their weekend football dates to the window outside his first-floor suite at Ezra Stiles College to point out, with an unabashed reverence, the room of "the guy who knows the Beatles...
...Premier arrives on the dot of 2 p.m. and is greeted by Nixon, who has been waiting outside the guesthouse where he is staying-a two-story buff brick abode filled with overstuffed chairs, paintings of public works projects and calligraphy by Mao. The pair walk quickly into the first-floor conference room and sit opposite each other at a long table covered with green. As the photographers jostle each other, clicking away, Chou laughs and says: "You must take more pictures of your President." Nixon apparently doesn't get the subtle humor or maybe he does. "Pictures...