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McCarthy, who graduated from Boston College and the Harvard Graduate School of Education, said people used to joke that the U.S. government came from Cambridge. "Frankly," he said, "I'd like to see that happen again...
...token of his appreciation, Slive said that he gave a tin cup to each of the people who helped to make the miracle happen. "The tin cup was a symbol of the whole operation because we literally had to beg for money," Slive said...
Feel as if the collective spirit of rock has suddenly been hot-wired for social activism? Fine. Think this will blow over in a little, and everything will settle down? Think again; that is not going to happen for a while. There are two immediate reasons why: the release the week of Oct. 14 of an impassioned all-star antiapartheid record, Sun City, and the congenial reverberations from last week's FarmAid, the concert that featured top rock and country-and-western talent drumming up support for the American farmer. Both the Sun City record and the FarmAid concert, held...
...like misfired rockets. Rockwell's Beall painfully remembers how his company spent $400 million to rev up for large-scale production of the B-1 bomber, only to have the program dropped during the Carter Administration. It has been restarted under Reagan. "There is the risk that it could happen again," he says. "But in this business you have to take chances. The real risk is in not taking any risks at all." Beall believes that even if his Star Wars business goes sour, the research will lead to improvement in other products, like infrared detection devices. In any case...
Stopping the spread of AIDS is possible, but will happen only when people exercize more caution in their social behavior, the director of one of the nation's leading health research centers said yesterday at a Harvard health conference...