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...stakes are high. Evidently expecting to receive the go-ahead, Harvard has already directed the engineering firm handling the $109 million project to dig up a city block and pour the foundation. The site has been swarming with workers in the past months...
Ironically, the price that Robeson paid for that vision was his own freedom to perform and travel as a man of all nations. In the heat of McCarthyism, the State Department began denying him visas to travel abroad to accept the performing offers that continued to pour in from around the globe. On June 12, 1956, he was called up before the House Committee on Un-American Activities and badgered about his ties to the Communist Party. America gave Robeson little peace in his last decade, and he had every right to turn bitter and resentful...
Movie crews pour cash into Midwest...
...political ideas, and rarely takes a formal position on particular measures. But institute members can point to some specific successes. Sharp criticism by Murray Weidenbaum, an A.E.I. fellow and member of TIME'S Board of Economists, helped kill a 1975 proposal by then Vice President Nelson Rockefeller to pour $100 billion of federal money into an emergency energy program. Earlier this year the institute insistently pointed out what it saw as the bureaucratic dangers of the proposed Agency for Consumer Advocacy, which now seems dead. More generally, Tom Dernburg, chief economist for the Joint Economic Committee of Congress, says...
...interviewing, I had no problem establishing a rapport," says Correspondent Richard Woodbury, who had just been reassigned from Chicago to Miami and was looking for housing of his own in Florida. "Like survivors of some shipwreck, we compared hard-luck stories and exorbitant prices. Buyers were eager to pour out their tales." Woodbury's assignment in the end proved a blessing. A source gave him a tip that led him to an apartment overlooking Biscayne Bay. Says Woodbury: "Ideal, and the price, $50 under my budget. I move in this weekend...