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Cambridge traffic officials will not allow Harvard shuttle busses to stop anywhere in Harvard Square because of the heavy traffic caused by subway construction, Daniel L. Geiger '80, shuttle bus captain, said yesterday...
...former Johston Gate and Church Street stops will be replaced by a stop on Mass Ave. behind Lamont Library and one on Boylston Street across the road from Kirkland House. Students may request to disembark on Garden Street near the Cambridge cemetary, Geiger said...
Besides, in democratic process, there is a constant interaction between leaders and led, between the people's mood and the politician's watchful calculation of it. The two intersect in Congress, which seems to be dissolving into dreary incoherence. Congress, with its delicate Geiger counters of mood all activated and ticking gently, refused even to grant the Administration stand-by authority to ration gas-although it is true that Carter's approach on that subject was notably clumsy...
Shortly after the company released its soothing statement, officials of Pennsylvania's department of environmental resources flew over the plant in a helicopter, carrying a Geiger counter. They reported detecting "a small release of radiation into the environment...
Almost as soon as the accident at Three Mile Island occurred, Radiation Physicist Ernest Sternglass was at the scene, Geiger counter in hand, crying disaster to anyone who would listen. He predicted an increase of 5% to 20% in the incidence of leukemia in children of the area within a year. A vehement foe of nuclear power, the University of Pittsburgh scientist exclaimed: "The reaction of the community should be to stand up and scream...