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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...subway trains gasped to a halt, 800,000 passengers were trapped in them. In hundreds of stalled elevators, office workers hung tremulously between earth and sky. Traffic lights failed; main arteries snarled. Hundreds of drivers ran out of gas?only to discover that service-station pumps cannot work without electricity. Apartment buzzers summoned nobody. Most vending machines became inoperable. Fire alarms were mute. At the United Nations, earphones and tape recorders went dead, leaving bewildered delegates ?for the first time in memory?with the refreshing experience of having nothing to say and no one to listen...
Moscow's main attraction for the Communist faithful is the Lenin Tomb in Red Square. Every day, thousands of visitors walk silently past the glass and granite crypt, stare reverently at the dimly lit, waxy-looking corpse guarded by rigid soldiers, then file back into the sunlight. Last week Soviet officials announced that the mausoleum would be closed for the next two months. "Normal repairs," was the explanation. But on what-or whom...
...volt system is one of the three types of back-up sources in use at Harvard. Its reserve power comes from a cable which reaches beyond the College's two substations and connects with the main current line from the Cambridge Power and Light Company, where Harvard buys all its electricity. Murphy said the system is a recent innovation which, at this time, services only a section of the University. The other two emergency sources are wet and dry-cell batteries...
...Mayer and his company have taken The Tempest by storm. Designers Eric Martin and William Carter have built a magic island on the Loeb main stage. Paul Levi has filled it with delicate music, which, thanks to a specially installed sound system, is not just a noise off stage, but seems to fill the air. And Mayer, as director, has peopled the enchanted commonwealth with mankind. Plus two. The show should sell out by sundown...
AYER, Mass Nov.1 -- Demonstrators opposed to the war in Vietnam picketed outside the main gate of Fort Devens today. They included two Harvard students...