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...government began granting regular commissions to conscript officers, who previously had received merely militia commissions. Groups of disgruntled regulars-captains and majors-thus began meeting in secret sessions to vent their frustrations. Eventually, these discussions broadened to include political and social topics. By December 1973, a nucleus of junior officers was already thinking of ways to overthrow the Caetano regime...
...Harvard Summer Chamber Series opened its third season Monday night and was lauded in the Boston Globe for the "exalting" performances heard that evening. As in previous years, the group is composed of a nucleus of about live professionals well known in the Boston area surrounded by young artists from Harvard, Curtis, New England Conservatory and U.S.C...
Transparent Pyramid. The setting, however, is a different matter. It is pharaonic: a nucleus of ritual objects meant to serve the dead man in his next life, immured at the center of a transparent pyramid. Only a mummy is absent, but the eye of an irreverent visitor may easily stray to the center of the sunken atrium, half expecting to see a sarcophagus. Roche-Dinkeloo's design is elegant, icy and inflated. Lehman agreed that the new wing should have almost the same proportions as the Met's Great Hall - thus ensuring a large abstract monument to himself...
Cronin is philosophic about next year's campaign. "Though we lose seven starters, we'll have the nucleus for another strong team," he said yesterday...
Three years ago John Baker, an ex-Harvard heavyweight oarsman, assumed Radcliffe's coaching chores on a no-salary, volunteer basis. Around a nucleus of five freshmen. Baker built the crew into national champions in the space of a single season...