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Eight months and a myriad of headaches later, the dining hall is open, waiting for the first hordes of hungry Quaddies. But it seems the saga hasn't quite ended. Though the administration figures a cost overrun of only about 2 per cent for the project, John B. Cruz Construction, the general contractor for the dining hall, is hurting. John B. Cruz, the owner-director of the company, says the project for Harvard has set his $3 million a year operation back a good two years. And theough he claims a portion of the responsibility, he says Harvard...
...white liberal turned vigilante-revenger -received a certain amount of sneaking sympathy at the dinner parties of the white middle class. Since 1976 the Anger Quotient has gone steadily downward. A decrease in violent crimes has been partly responsible. A walker in Central Park is as likely to be overrun by joggers as assaulted by muggers. New York has the fifth highest major crime rate among the ten largest cities in the nation, behind Houston, Dallas, Los Angeles and Detroit. Major crimes in New York decreased last year by 6.4%, perhaps because the potential victims have become a good deal...
...more resolute vacationers choose to ignore that advice. An estimated 13 million visitors have mobbed hotels, overrun campgrounds and simply parked themselves on roadsides, in vineyards, on beaches and wherever else a speck of bare ground shows itself. Les campeurs sauvages (wild campers) number about 50,000. They are a particular irritation to police, since they will pitch a tent illegally in a parking lot, on a piece of highly desirable beach or even, as one did, on a shady traffic island in the middle of Cannes. Typical is Axel Koenigs, a young West German bank employee who drove...
...ostentatiously brought to the harbor last week, and Rainier's motor yacht was given a fresh coat of paint. Perhaps these were diversionary tactics. Friends hinted that the couple might return to the Galápagos. If so, the archipelago that inspired Darwin will no doubt be overrun by one of the most curious creatures of all: genus scriptorum...
...more than doubled in the same period, from 54,000 to 126,000. Every year more than 30,000 new attorneys are pumped into the job market. Says somebody who ought to know, U.S. Chief Justice Warren E. Burger: "We may well be on our way to a society overrun by hordes of lawyers, hungry as locusts, and brigades of judges in numbers never before contemplated...