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Lloyd E. Hawes, lecturer on Radiology at the Medical School, has just given the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine at Harvard the largest historical collection of radiological literature and equipment in the country...
...Congress Party's most stunning setback came in India's most strategic state, West Bengal, which borders East Pakistan. It also contains India's largest concentration of industry and its most miserable city, Calcutta. In West Bengal, the twelve-party United Front, which is dominated by Peking-lining Communists, won 214 seats in the 280-seat legislature, while the Congress Party's holding dropped from 127 seats to only 55. There was little doubt that the United Front would now put together a government that may well be headed by a Maoist chief minister...
Packaged and Shipped. Perhaps it will all begin with a simple and foreseeable act of God-say a heavy snowstorm in New York City. There, last week, at the world's largest international airport, the scenario came true. Even at its best, an airport terminal seems inhuman-a monstrous machine disguised as a building and designed to process people and baggage. To the machine, there is no difference between men, women, children, suitcases, pets. All are collected, screened according to route, classified by status, divided into units of the right size, packaged in aircraft-and shipped. When 17 inches...
...squeezed a $100 million dividend out of its coffers to finance other Leasco operations. Last week Steinberg admitted at Leasco's annual meeting that his takeover appetite has grown so big that he would like to swallow Chemical Bank New York Trust Co., the nation's sixth largest commercial bank (assets: $9 billion). Chemical Chairman William S. Renchard has promised to fend off "aggressors" vigorously...
...donor's request, the collection--one of the world's largest--will be renamed the Robert Jordon Theatre Collection after Robert Jordon '06, Boston merchant and enthusiast of the arts...