Word: majority
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard's Biological Laboratories have made some major contributions to the world of science. City Councilor Alfred E. Vellucci wants contributions of another sort, however--tax dollars. And he's already pushed a motion through the City Council ordering an investigation of the labs' tax status...
...leadership of the club, especially to Artson, who planned to run for president, the new members posed a major threat. "If they had all showed up at the election meeting," noted one sophomore who ran for club office, "we would have been demolished." Some members even favored invalidating the new memberships. But the conflict between the freshmen and the older members never materialized. Both groups rapidly learned that they were on the same side of most of the issues. Everyone wanted more debates, more lobbying action, more money, and more activities--but neither side realized that a consensus existed until...
...club just a few days after they had become members," Tamara Stanton '79, the club president in 1978, said earlier this week. Since there was agreement on the issues and everyone had a rough idea of who was running for what, all involved entered the election meeting expecting no major battles over club offices. After all, they thought, everyone was in agreement on the issues, right...
Wrong. In the first vote of the evening, Artson won the presidency unopposed. Though this was not a major surprise, club members had expected at least token competition. Esty later told friends that he had not run because he had too many other activities and "did not enjoy being considered a politico" after the vice presidential controversy a few months before...
After three days of intense hiking and climbing, the 23-year-old geology major was ready to eat a hearty dinner. What he and the other prisoners got instead were three dill pickle spears, a bologna sandwich, re-warmed canned hash, three-day-old stale cake and cold milk. Not allowed to eat any of the food he'd brought in his backpack, Yates eventually went to sleep on a mattress mounted on a steel lathe platform, without sheets...