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...weather-beaten white house behind the plaque has a "For Lease" sign planted out in front. The sign, too, is rusting. On the grass rests the wrapper from a bag of onion rings, and a discarded box of wild-cherry-flavored cough drops...
...Hughes Aircraft, Sperry Corporation and General Electric. Money also came from Draper Labs, which is unwilling to disclose the extent of its financing. But the total of corporate funds employed by Draper's pro-nuclear campaign may well have been more than 20 times the total budget of the grass-roots citizens' effort against nuclear weapons work...
Students trampling through the little patches of grass and a complicated artificial irrigation system added to the problem, he said. "We needed a viable plan to solve all of these problems," he added...
Some of us even thought a park with grass, trees and benches would be nice. What a novel idea for Harvard. But no, the University, in its infinite wisdom, has decided to test (once again) our thresholds of pain. As a child, I used to ask my mother where ugly buildings came from. Tenderly, she would reply that they had always been there; it was God's way of revealing the imperfection of the temporal world. The building of Sackler Hall lays to rest another one of my childhood beliefs...
...part, Grandmaison blamed his ouster on his colleagues' preference for the electronic media at the expense of an essential, if costly, grass-roots organization. Says he: "A lot of it had to do with my inability to persuade Bill White to make the necessary investment to build a field campaign." The two men began feuding in earnest last month, when White decided to close the California staff office and cut back funds in Wisconsin...