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...about him in the campus newspapers. But unless you take an interest in Harvard's affairs, Bok will not be a part of your daily life. Most likely he will be in California on a fundraiser, in Washington lobbying against President Reagan's student-aid cuts or in his plush Massachusetts Hall office dealing with back-to-back meetings...

Author: By Joseph F Kahn, | Title: All The President's Men | 7/16/1985 | See Source »

...luxurious Charles Square complex opened in March beside the equally plush University Place, gentrification crept further and further into Cambridge's traditionally blue collar neighborhoods. Penthouse condominiums in Charles Square and University Green reportedly sold for over $1 million, sending the price tag for one house on Mt. Auburn St. well above the million dollar mark...

Author: By Thomas J. Winslow, | Title: City Bitties | 6/6/1985 | See Source »

Instead of dorm crew, in the '30s College maids--called "goodies"--should make beds, empty wastebaskets, and tidy rooms up. "It was very plush living," Harp remembers...

Author: By James E. Schwartz, | Title: A Clouded Era's Silver Lining | 6/4/1985 | See Source »

...corporate merger, they become as circumspect as Swiss bankers. So it went with the merger between Allied and Signal, announced last week. Edward Hennessy Jr., Allied's chairman, along with Forrest Shumway and Michael Dingman, Signal's chairman and president, met March 5 at Marriott's Camelback Inn, a plush Scottsdale, Ariz., resort with two 18-hole golf courses, two swimming pools and ten tennis courts. Hennessy and Dingman registered under the last name of Dingman's secretary. Although the executives are fond of sports, they seldom left their rooms. When discussing the firms, they called Allied "East" and Signal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Master Builders | 5/27/1985 | See Source »

...frenzied battle for the business flyer, airlines are forever trying to outdo themselves. TWA and Pan Am, among others, arrange their seats four or six (instead of eight) across in what is called business class. This is nicer than coach but a little less plush than first class, which tends to cause jitters among the watchdogs who monitor corporate expense accounts. With all of that, could revamping of the seat itself be far, uh, behind? Now TWA has introduced its "Business Lounger," the airline's answer to one of the worst problems in the sky: flying fanny fatigue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Airlines: An End to Flying Fanny Fatigue | 5/13/1985 | See Source »

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