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Dates: during 1970-1979
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George H. Williams, Hollis Professor of Divinity, was probably the only person in the country who wasn't surprised last week when the Sacred College of Cardinals announced the results of its latest conclave. A month earlier, Williams was possibly the only Vatican observer in the world who predicted the election of Karol Cardinal Wojtyla, archbishop of Krakow, Poland, as the 264th Supreme Pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church...
...Association of Undergraduate Philosophy Concentrators elected a six-person committee to meet with section leaders on November 3 to discuss the current policy of selections of graduate students for sections...
...Kennedy School teaching method leans heavily on the "case method"--also taught at the Business School. A case is a description of a real management situation, usually from the point of view of one person. The question is "what would you do?"...Most students are generally satisfied with the classes. "I came here to get a good grounding in formal analytic techniques like economics, operations research, statistics...I'm geting that so I'm very happy," says Michael Gravitz, a MPP-JD student...
...tunnels were originally built to house the pipes. Construction, which started in 1927, was aimed at providing maintainance workers with easy access to the pipes. Damp and dark, the concrete bunkers are sometimes ten feet high, at other points too low for a 6-ft. person to stand. They are packed tight with pipes; six or eight run along the walls of a typical segment, some of them two-feet-in-diameter monstrosities enclosing smaller tubes...
Winthrop eschews the role as spokesman for the entire assembly. "Frankly, I'm frightened by the idea of one person controlling the flow of information because if that one person is leaning one way or the other it could be very destructive to the outcome of that issue," he said...