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First on the docket for Conant was a total reconstruction of the faculty. In addition to merely improving the existing faculty, Conant sought to develop new subgroups of teachers who would enhance Harvard's intellectual reputation. The Nieman Fellowships, which permit twelve journalists to work on topics of their choosing at Harvard for a year on a full full stipend, were created during this era. Conant also worked to open the gates of Harvard Yard to poor, but talented scholars with his National Scholarship program--a New Deal of sorts for less privileged classes...
...Surgeon General, who has traveled across the country on a personal anti-smoking crusade, said the Federal Government would not permit a national anti-smoking law to be passed. However, he said 37 states already have some form of smoking ordinances on the books...
...goal is to salvage H.M.S. Hussar, a British pay ship that sank in 80 ft. of water in the East River off Manhattan in 1780 laden with a cargo of gold that some experts estimate to be worth $500 million. Clifford has been granted an initial exploration permit for the Hussar by New York State, and expects to begin probing the river's treacherous five-knot currents and polluted water this week...
Clifford began his search for the Whydah in 1982. Armed with an exclusive permit from the state of Massachusetts, he concentrated on a 2-sq.-mi. area, using a magnetometer and side-scan sonar. In the summer of 1983 divers found a clay pipestem, brass nails and some rudder strapping. But try as he might, Clifford could not convince everyone that the artifacts were from the Whydah and not from any of the countless other ships that have been wrecked off the Cape. Even the 1984 discovery of three cannons failed to satisfy Clifford's critics. But last fall, while...
...actually have moved it backward. Reagan indicated to Gorbachev that he wants to loosen the strictures on the development and testing of exotic defenses so that the 1972 pact would permit the U.S. to proceed unfettered with SDI if and when the program is ready to move from the laboratories on earth to experiments in space. That is exactly what the Soviets want to stop, since they would then have to develop expensive offensive and defensive countermeasures. Moreover, for the record at least, Reagan remains committed to eventual deployment...