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Nature has foiled Councillor Alfred E. Vellucci again. Harvard will not float out to sea Friday night even if the Charles River reaches the nine foot crest that the U.S. Weather Bureau predicts...
Cambridge Police maintained their proper sense of perspective throughout the crisis. "I'd sure hate to think what would happen if the river rose eight feet," one sergeant said. "I'd sure hate to see Harvard float...
...Animals. Such a vessel could have been built while lying at an angle on one side. Animals could easily climb a gentle incline on a side and enter through a door. As the ark began to float, it would right itself; as a result, the door would tilt and become a skylight in the roof, and water could not enter the craft from its sides. The design, according to Ben-Uri, could easily accommodate three decks and provide a capacity of some 5,500 tons, enough for at least 1,000 pairs of animals...
Sunasco's troubles began almost as soon as the company was created in April 1966 by a merger of Beverly Hills-based Sunset International Petroleum with suburban Philadelphia's Atlas Credit Corp., a mortgage-banking, title-insurance and home-repair finance concern. First, a plan to float $14 million worth of long-term debentures went awry in the 1966 credit squeeze. Then the merger partners, Atlas' John L. Wolgin and Sunset's Morton Sterling, locked horns over how to raise money for the ailing realty side of their operation. Recalls Rozet: "There were four children...
...color opposite). Gifted with pop art's most facile brush, Rosenquist was a smash with his first Manhattan show in 1962. His huge, bold panoramas combine the photo-simulated faces, glossily glamorized foods and chrome-plated gadgetry of Madison Avenue in weird compositions where objects seem to float off the canvas. In their own way, they are also a wry celebration of the way Americans view their kandy-kolored environment...