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...seminars, sometimes with Chinmoy himself, who has come to Harvard the last eight years. This year the meditation group sponsored a 24-hour poetry reading in which 3500 of Chinmoy's poems were read aloud. Because the philosopher is also an avid athlete, the group sponsored a 347-mile continuous relay around campus earlier in the year to commemorate Harvard's 347th anniversary...
...Left--center) JENNY STRICKER strides out the yards in indoor competition. Stricker led the Ivy champion cross country team in the fall, then continued her exploits in track. She ran the sixth fastest women's two-mile ever...
Coddington cites as possible causes an increase in fear of radiation, the 1979 accident at the nuclear power plant at Three Mile Island, and conflicting testimony among scientists in public debates. Additionally, the synthesis of new, highly lethal chemicals and highly radioactive compounds has taught people the unrealistic nature of the "belief of 20 years ago that you could throw things away--that there was such a place as 'away...
...drive that has expanded the membership from 3,000 to 50,000-in addition, there are at least 200,000 politically active sympathizers-and mobilized effective mass demonstrations against the Bomb. Last month C.N.D. members and their allies held hands to form a 14-mile chain between Greenham Common in Berkshire, where the first U.S. cruise missiles are scheduled to be installed later this year, and Burghfield, site of Britain's nuclear warhead factory...
...nuclear power industry has suffered many setbacks, one of the worst being the accident at Three Mile Island. But none is potentially more costly than the financial tragedy unfolding in Washington State. Next week the Washington Public Power Supply System is expected to fail to make a $15.6 million monthly debt-service payment to Chemical Bank on bonds worth $2.25 billion. The securities were issued starting in 1976 to pay for two nuclear power plants that have already been scrapped. A default would likely endanger completion of three other unfinished WPPSS plants on which $6.1 billion is owed. Moreover...