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...slight leak" was detected by the maintenance worker making the change, and before procedures were completed, a release of chloring began," Francis J. Toland, assistant director of athletics, said in Harvard's only official statement on the matter...
Neither Toland nor Buildings and Grounds (B&G) administrators explained how the leak escalated, eventually filling the building and chasing early morning swimmers into Holyoke Street, some gasping for air and doubled over in pain...
...maintenance employee familiar with the building said this week that the worker replacing the tank had told him that "the line was shot" before the leak occurred Monday and that reports of the deterioration to supervisors had not resulted in any action...
Buildings and Grounds workers tried feverishly to stanch the flow, but the ancient pipes and hard-to-find shutoffs thwarted their efforts till nearly 11 p.m. When they finally fixed the leak, the Yard drained quickly and subsequent inspections revealed only minor damage to building basements and underground library stacks. By early morning, only a layer of mud was left as proof of the nighttime flood...
...some $750,000; he insisted he had lost almost his entire $145,000 investment. The same CIA sources apparently spread a false report that Casey and Hugel had planned a covert operation aimed at the "ultimate" removal of Libya's Strongman Muammar Gadaffi from power. Misinformation was leaked to Newsweek that the House Intelligence Committee had been so alarmed at the Libya plot that it had written Reagan to protest. (TIME had also learned about the alleged plot, but concluded that the report was untrue.) The White House last week flatly denied Newsweek's story. But then...