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Supreme Court Justice WILLIAM BRENNAN at Brandeis University, Waltham, Mass.: "Rulers always have and always will find it dangerous to their security to permit people to think, believe, talk, write, assemble and particularly to criticize the government as they please. But the language of the First Amendment indicates that the founders weighed the risks involved in such freedoms and deliberately chose to stake this Government's security and life upon preserving the liberty to discuss public affairs intact and untouchable by Government...
...fireball in the blue skies over Florida, after 24 seemingly routine shuttle launches, was seen at first as an inexplicable aberration, akin to an act of God. It was widely assumed that a Government agency with NASA's can-do spirit and engineering wizardry would never permit six crew members and a schoolteacher to perish through some avoidable human error. Surely a mechanical glitch would be found and speedily fixed...
...President Sally E. Zeckhauser said Harvard does not support Ferranti-Dege's request for a removal permit...
Ferranti-Dege subsequently filed a petition for a permit to remove the apartment from Cambridge's rent-control restrictions, and thus make it available for commercial use. The shop's attorney requested that the rent-controlled status of apartment 209 be transferred to its old office in an apartment at 8 Plympton St., another Harvard-owned building which used to house the store...
Owners of property in the zone, which encompassed the heart of Harvard Square, must now get a special permit for construction higher than 55 feet and may build no higher than 90 feet. The new package also reversed a 1979 decision waiving requirements that developers leave a specified amount of space around each building...