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...Studios and electrical engineer, wrote an explanatory letter to his students: "I've known the place was unsafe for 11 years...I talked to people, they agreed it was unsafe, but after all, if the building met code when it was built, and it's now a registered national landmark, doing anything would despoil the work of the Master. Not to mention cost a lot of money...
...lose sight of in a year when so much happened that was treated like it meant so little. But for one brief period, people cared and cut through the minutiae--a Supreme Court seat was denied to a man who had spoken out against civil rights and denounced landmark equal access legislation. But in an irony that was befitting for the year, and surely gave pleasure to the cynics who invented that bumper sticker slogan, Bork was successfully followed by a jurist who, once confirmed, cast a vote challenging the core of federal civil rights doctrine...
...NLRB was established in 1935--an era of landmark labor legislation--to act as the national mediator in worker disputes. The board is intended to act as a non-partisan lawyer, judge and arbiter in any legal dispute between labor and management, although the current board is recognized by labor experts as a politically conservative body...
...first time, this year's reunion classes have merged in both volume and spirit. The landmark Radcliffe class of 1963 was the first to receive diplomas issued by Harvard. And now these grads are the first to join with their male counterparts for Harvard's traditionally more elaborate reunion festivities...
...Soviet leader is ending his nation' s unpopular foreign adventure, but his ambitious political and economic reforms still face challenges at home. -- A landmark U. S.- Soviet arms treaty is now about 90% complete. In an exclusive report, TIME' s Strobe Talbott tells the inside story of negotiations to scrap some of the most dangerous weapons on earth...