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None of the stories I have read about arms control affected me as did yours with its picture of the Kremlin façade. The Soviet hammer and sickle are a familiar sight, but I have never seen the emblem superimposed on the globe. That symbol evoked all the long-forgotten cold war fanaticism about Soviet world domination...
...Smith wrote in The New York Times. There must be hoodlums who attend the theater or opera or ballet as well as baseball, football and hockey games, but they never throw things at the actors, and only certifiable crackpots try to slash the Mona Lisa or take a hammer to Michelangelo's Pieta Generally speaking, it is only at sports events that violence is done Customers who wouldn't dream of jeering at Barbra Streisand or Luciano Pavarottie seem to feel that a ticket to the grandstand or the bleachers is a license to the grandstand or the bleachers...
Another piece of equipment of great use to the Center's researchers is the X-ray machine. Several years ago petroleum magnate Armand Hammer sent a Rembrandt entitled "Juno" to be inspected. The painting depicts the wife of Zeus holding a staff. X-ray surprisingly revealed that Rembrandt originally painted Juno empty-handed and with her arms down...
...Radcliffe Union of Students began an intensive lobbying effort for university guidelines on harassment. A highly publicized harassment case last spring involving a visiting professor placed further pressure on the University to review its treatment of that issue. In its meeting this year, the Faculty Council has begun to hammer out sexual harassment guidelines for the University, a project which should be completed by spring...
...most of the councillors contacted yesterday did not oppose the mayor's action. After two consecutive marathon sessions trying to hammer out zoning changes for the last large tract of undeveloped land in Cambridge, they said they were looking forward to the unusually restful Monday night...