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...weather was unseasonably warm that night; it would get colder later. More than 11,000 people attended the concert, four-fifth's of whom listened to the music through loudspeakers outside of the Cathedral. The concert was scheduled for 9:00 p.m. At three o'clock that day, the first arrival began his afternoon vigil. Four and one-half hours, eleven postcards and a finished journal later, he moved into the Cathedral, along with three thousand others...

Author: By E.j. Dionne and Dorothy A. Lindsay, S | Title: Demonstrators Face Nixon: Two Worlds in Washington | 1/29/1973 | See Source »

Unable to substantially check university growth. Cambridge's answer to their housing crisis is rent control. The city first instituted a rent control program in 1970, after a decade of spiraling rents. Four-fifth of Cambridge's residents pay rent to absentee landlords...

Author: By Susan F. Kinsley and Steven Reed, S | Title: Cambridge: More than Meets a Polaroid's Lens | 7/3/1972 | See Source »

Despite President Conant's policy to stimulate nation-wide geographic distribution in University enrollment, the East, a section including all states east of the Alleghenies and north of Washington D.C., produced almost four-fifth of the Class of '61, according to a recent survey...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Easterners Dominate '51 Enrollment Despite University Dispersion Effort | 1/9/1948 | See Source »

Comforting thought for Americans: U.S. money (frozen in France) was largely responsible for the French prizewinners. RKO put up half the money for the 100 million franc ($840,000) Silence; Universal, four-fifth's of Diable's 52 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Oscars Abroad | 7/21/1947 | See Source »

Three records were broken in the class A fighting. Walsh of Brockton ran the 220 in 23 seconds, Sundstrom of Brockton ran the 120 yard low hurdles in 14 and four-fifth seconds, and Vinal of Lowell put the shot 43 feet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BROCKTON AND LAWRENCE WIN IN SCHOOLBOY MEET | 6/8/1925 | See Source »

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