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...President, dwarfed by a giant sepia photograph of OSS Founder William ("Wild Bill") Donovan behind the rostrum, paid generous tribute to these erstwhile practitioners of the dark arts of spying, espionage, sabotage and behind-the-lines derring-do. The OSS's achievements, said Reagan, were of the sort for which "praise and thanks can only come from history and not your contemporaries." But he tried to make up for the slight, saying, "We honor you, we salute you, we thank you for a job well done...
...dark, somber photograph showing Andrei Sakharov in his Gorky apartment would stir interest under any circumstances. But it is especially notable since the photographer is the subject's wife Yelena Bonner. Taken in October of last year, the picture was released to mark her husband's 65th birthday this week. Bonner, who is in the U.S. for medical treatment until June 2, used the occasion to express the "hope that my husband will be free and would enjoy at least the rights of other citizens of the country in which he was born, lived all his life and for which...
...have been involved in many political rallies at Harvard, and it has been my experience that when there are more than 100 students at a rally, The Crimson covers it with a front-page story and more than likely a photograph. Thus I was very surprised to hear in the aftermath of a Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical workers' rally that drew over 400 workers that The Crimson tended to cover it only with a back-pages story that turned out to be just one column long...
Though the fire destroyed about 20% of the 2.6 million volumes, the rare-book and historical-photograph collections appeared unscathed. Librarians and volunteers quickly began packing water-logged volumes to be sent out for freeze-drying...
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