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...have been Kramer's Piper. Seconds later the controller's attention was diverted by a "pop-up," a small plane that unexpectedly radioed for traffic advice and instrument control. The controller assigned the plane a transponder code for identification as the craft flew across the Los Angeles Basin. But precious time was wasted when the pilot got the number wrong and had to be corrected...
...Hunts' downfall was in the making long before the oil slump. Their troubles go back to 1979, when Bunker and Herbert began hoarding silver. They ultimately amassed some 59 million oz. of the precious metal, which seemed a shrewd move as the price of silver climbed to a high of $50.35 per oz. in January 1980. It was a gamble characteristic of the sons of H.L. Hunt, who once made a living as a cardplayer. But this time the Hunts' luck ran out. When the silver price plummeted to $10.20 per oz. two months later, the Hunts were suddenly left...
This may be just as well, for there is evidence that they pick up precious little in four years from some of the school's world-class scholars. Many top Harvard faculty, say critics, tend to be too engrossed in their own research, too busy with outside consulting or just too lordly to bother with anything so trivial as an undergraduate. One eager junior, preparing to write a paper on relations between the U.S. and China, asked for an appointment with Ross Terrill, then director of Harvard's East Asian Studies programs. After a long delay (standard heel cooling...
Scurrying to symposia, precious tickets carefully clutched, the alumni and visitors got their chance t sample Harvard's current academic flavor. The first of 106 academic symposia got underway yesterday...
...think of love only as two human beings in love. But it isn't in love. It's love. It's love toward an object. It can be a love toward those shells," he says, pointing nearby. "It's a love of warmth, of finding something precious. It's like a wonderful animal, a dog that will come up and sit in your lap and you pet its head. This is something we've lost. A lot of people will take my wife's statement wrong, but I think it's very beautiful and real...