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...Harvard was one of the major strikes in the spring of '69," Grele says, adding that the campus "had one of the largest SDS [contigents] in the country." SDS--Students for a Democratic Society--was a national progressive student organization which helped to spur campus demonstrations nationwide at the height of its membership in the late...
...late 1960s, Cambridge was one of the largest industrial centers in the state. Although the two universities--Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology--often dominated the scene, it had never really been a "university city...
...only remaining barrier to University plans for affiliate housing on the site--now the largest undeveloped plot of land in Harvard Square--is clean-up of a "low level" of oil found on the property last summer, said Marilyn L. O'Connell, assistant director for urban planning and community affairs...
...with flippers drenched in oil clinging to a buoy near the wreck. By the time the leak had slowed to a dribble a day later, an estimated 270,000 bbl. of oil had escaped, producing a slick 8 miles long and 4 miles wide. It appeared to be the largest spill, if not the worst in terms of ecological damage, in U.S. history...
...jetliner in 1987. The company scored a major coup last week when American Airlines announced plans to buy 75 Fokker 100s, to be delivered in the next six years, and an option to purchase 75 more later on. The American deal, worth as much as $3 billion, is the largest foreign contract ever won by a Dutch company...