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Dates: during 1970-1979
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However, teaching large courses isn't always easy for the professor...

Author: By Brenda A. Russell, | Title: Social Analysis 10 Tops 1000; Largest Harvard Class Ever | 10/4/1979 | See Source »

...fact, the core's products are cool enough to generate steam safely. Thomas Jones, MIT vice president for research, said yesterday the reactor body fills with hot but not scalding water. "The energy at that temperature isn't very useful, but it's very safe," he said. "In fact, if people had been energy-conscious then as they are now, we could have used the energy to heat these buildings...

Author: By Elizabeth H. Wiltshire, | Title: The Reactor in Cambridge's Backyard | 10/3/1979 | See Source »

...crowd isn't as big as some have predicted. By 10 a.m. there are still acres left unoccupied, and television monitors scattered in the far corners of the park look a little out of place. But a chattering stream of newcomers moves constantly across the Common, spilling out of the Park Street station. They are greeted first by a battalion of souvenir hawkers peddling commemorative medals, half a dozen brands of Pope programs, (the best of which has a full page of the holy father kissing the ground in different locales), dumb bumper stickers (I saw the Pope in Mass...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: A City Awaits A Pope | 10/2/1979 | See Source »

...they decide it isn't raining hard enough to move the rain canopy over the rostrum. At 2:30 p.m. they decide it's raining hard enough to move the rain canopy over the rostrum. Now the television crews are complaining about the light. At 2:30 p.m., the real dignitaries and the church officials start to arrive. Cardinals and priests garbed in the traditional black and purple robes. Politicians in pin-stripes and whoever else managed to nab a ticket to the airport ceremonies. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) steps in with a big smile, Joan...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Chasing After the Shepherd | 10/2/1979 | See Source »

...wafer-thin Pirelli building, which towers higher than any other in Italy. A stalwart debunker of design cliches and a champion of functionalism, Ponti created scooper-like dinner forks, glass bookshelves in which the volumes seem to float, and an austere double bed. A bed, he said, "isn't only a place for voluptuousness," but a place for comfort and majesty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 1, 1979 | 10/1/1979 | See Source »

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