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...several players, the highlight of last weekend's matches against the California teams was the opportunity to meet Pablo Morales and Terry Schroeder. Morales, who plays polo for Stanford, is the current world-record holder in both the 100 and 200 Butterfly...
...novel places to hide their bugs: in a Perrier bottle, a stuffed toy, a pair of binoculars, shoes, an electric blanket, a horse's saddle. Agents even admit to dropping snooping devices into a confessional at a Roman Catholic church frequented by mobsters, as well as a church candlestick holder and a church men's room. All this, agents insist, was done with court permission...
...audience, fingers pointed. "It's not only about the rent increase," hisses one. "It's not only about the vote. It's not only about the bloody passbooks . . . What is it?" Silence, broken by a few nervous giggles. "Stand up!" The actor glares at a confused ticket holder in the front row. "What is it?" A terrible quiet. "What is it?" The flustered victim mumbles an answer. With a bitter laugh, his interrogator dismisses him. "My friend," he enunciates fiercely, "you have got to look for it: it is deep down in your heart...
...arrival of Walter Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus and undisputed holder of the "Mr. Modernism" title, reinvigorated the department, remembers Len Currie (GSD '38). Though "Harvard has always been tops" in the field, Currie says, "in '36 architecture was at a low ebb." Squabbles in the faculty, the departure of the old dean of architecture, and the sad state of American design during the Depression had shaken the school's confidence. Gropius's arrival boosted morale, and Harvard soon rocketed to the to the forefront of international design...
...arrival of Walter Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus and undisputed holder of the "Mr. Modernism" title, reinvigorated the department, remembers Len Currie (GSD '38). Though "Harvard has always been tops" in the field, Currie says, "in '36 architecture was at a low ebb." Squabbles in the faculty, the departure of the old dean of architecture, and the sad state of American design during the Depression had shaken the school's confidence. Gropius's arrival boosted morale, and Harvard soon rocketed to the to the forefront of international design...