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Harvard's two-year battle to convert the apartment building to office space became a symbol of conflict between the University and the surrounding community. Many tenants' rights activists criticized the Rent Board when it finally gave Harvard the go-ahead to change the building in December...
Harvard's victory did not come without costs. Along the way to receiving the go-ahead for its plans to provide energy to 13 institutions in the Medical Area, the University suffered deserved humiliation at the hands of the citizens who will have to live in the shadow of the giant plant. And Harvard's financial wizards found out what happens when you don't consult the feelings of residents-in addition to teams of outside efficiency experts-in making such decisions...
...politics." Nicholas Mitropoulos, assistant director of the IOP, admits the Institute usually sponsors study groups that examine the nuts and bolts of campaign organization rather than the life of a politician, but called Untermeyer's "great desire to do it" the overriding factor in securing the IOP's go-ahead. "We're here to learn about politics," he says, adding that the group has been very successful...
Cleary won his gold medal as a member of the 1960 U.S. hockey team which upsets a heavily-favored Russian squad at the Olympics held this year in Squaw Valley, Calif. In that game Cleary scored the go-ahead goal for the American team. He also won a silver medal on the 1956 Olympic team...
...become so intense as to make even Goldwater edgy. The Arizona Senator was at first reluctant to let Reagan speak in his behalf. Only after Neil Reagan, whose ad agency had landed the Goldwater account, read Ronald's proposed text over the phone did Barry give Ronald the go-ahead...