Word: lande
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dean said Harvard will erect a barrier if the land cannot be used "comfortably" by students both in and out of the club...
Harvard purchased the land for $33,000 in December 1956, originally intending to build a "commuter center" roughly equivalent to what is now Dudley House's Lehman Hall. Low alumni donations and completion of another building on campus led to the dropping of the plans...
While the Fly Club's approximately 65 active student members--who pay an initiation fee of about $150 and monthly dues of about $30--continued to get exclusive use of the land (which for several decades has been surrounded by a high chain-link fence) through the '60s, Harvard considered the site for several different proposals, including two for a parking lot or museum...
While Harvard paid property taxes on the land, the Fly Club paid for its maintenance, an arrangement that Epps said will continue...
...skyjackers' initial European destination was London, but the British government refused them permission to land. The French government was more accommodating, and the plane with its remaining hostages and crew of seven set down at Charles de Gaulle Airport near Paris. But once they had the plane on the ground, the French turned tough, declaring that under no circumstances would they allow it to leave. With that, the skyjackers, after talking directly with U.S. Ambassador to France Kenneth Rush, gave up, releasing the hostages unharmed. The five were flown back to the U.S. to face charges. It turned...