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Harvard's copy is one of 47 known Gutenberg Bibles known to be in existence. The book was printed about 1455 by Johann Gutenberg, the inventor of movable type. For insurance purposes, the Bible is valued at $1 million but it is almost irreplaceable. The bindings of the book, which are not original, were damaged in the fall, but the pages are still in good condition...
Kendall Square: two stops on the MBTA. Located in the Eastern section of the city near M. I. T., Kendall Square is the site of a new $60 million NASA research laboratory. The laboratory will cover some 29 acres, and is expected to stimulate major new investment in the area...
...order to become executive director of the Committee of the Permanent Charity Fund. At the time, he said, "This just looked like too exciting a thing not to do even though I had mixed feelings about leaving Harvard now or at any time." In recent years, the $70 million fund, which is one of the nation's two largest community foundations, has concentrated on supporting projects to attack urban problems-a trend Glimp said he plans to continue...
...many inland cities-Memphis, Nashville, Tulsa and Little Rock, for example-into ports where ocean cargo can be handled. Even towns on shallow rivers could get a crack at foreign commerce, since the average draft of a barge is only eight feet. Tulsa officials already plan to spend $20 million in the next two years to build a port to be named Catoosa, from which they expect to ship oil field machinery destined for Europe. Arkansas grain distributors, who export 40% of the 100 million bushels of grain that the state produces annually, plan to switch from rail to barges...
Government Example. Giscard suavely sought to appease industry by promising that the government would set an example of restraint. The 1969 deficit will be cut from $1.26 billion to $722 million, he vowed. Planned price increases by government-run gas and electricity utilities will be canceled. Military conscripts will be released a month early to swell the ranks of labor. And for the long term, the Finance Minister relayed a pledge from Premier Jacques Chaban-Delmas: so long as he is in office, government spending will rise no faster than the gross national product...