Word: projects
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Five weeks of state hearings on the environmental effects of Harvard's $130 million Medical Area power plant project officially ended yesterday...
Harvard began construction of the plant in the Mission Hill-Brookline area of Boston in November 1976. The University has already spent more than $50 million on the project, which it hopes will provide steam, electricity and chilled water to the Medical School and Harvard-affiliated hospitals at an annual savings of $2 million...
...project ran into trouble last January when a state environmental agency ruled that Harvard could not install diesel generators in the plant because they would allegedly produce dangerous levels of the pollutant nitrogen dioxide...
...This (news) item," Moore said, "would need nation-wide circulation in order to reach all the potential contributors and curtail their donations," thus curtailing the success of King's spring project...
...Einstein, he recalls, "appeared at the head of a staircase with the setting sun to his left, his hair glowing like a halo. His head was so large, his body seemed to hang from it like a spiral nebula." The great man agreed to pose for a sculpture, a project Berks has worked on ever since. "I was overwhelmed by the sweetness, yet penetrating intellect of the man. He treated everyone the same, whether child or king," recalls Berks, who has also sculpted busts of John F. Kennedy, Harry Truman and Lyndon Johnson. The National Academy of Sciences is raising...