Word: regular
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...intellectual insatiables, the Harvard community has attracted the regular slew of impressive people talking about Important Issues that we should all feel a Kantian obligation to rush out and learn about instead of going to happy hours and reading second-hand from Newsweek...
...writing on this page looks unfamiliar, that's because our regular rock columnist, Richie the "W," is on vacation in sunny West Palm Beach, recuperating from a recent attack of thesitis. Word from down South is that he's getting better, and will be back as soon as his typing fingers heal. Hopefully by May 4, because that's when the loveable, pigeon-toed Elvis Costello hits town along with Nick Lowe and Mink DeVille, a combination more delectable than the Kong's #7 platter...
...floor rooms for the use of 18 prisoners-most of whom were guilty only of misdemeanors. Cost: $22.50 per prisoner per day. The county paid $17 a day per room, plus $5.50 for meals for each of the inmates. While only one of the 254-room hotel's regular customers complained about the situation, an insurance company threatened to cancel the hotel's policy. What to do? The authorities simply released 25 prisoners on personal bonds...
...cardiac bypass was first developed as a regular procedure in 1967, when only 37 operations were performed. Since then some 300,000 to 400,000 have been carried out in the U.S. alone, and the 1978 total is expected to top 75,000. The operation involves taking lengths of vein from a patient's leg and stitching them to the aorta and to coronary arteries so that blockages are bypassed. The surgery demands the most skillful surgical teamwork, commonly takes as long as five hours and can cost $12,000 or more...
...increasing size made it desirable to create a dance company, separate from the regular program of dance classes. Last year Archie C. Epps III, dean of students, granted a charter to the Harvard-Radcliffe Dance Company. The charter, similar to those given to the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra or the Harvard Band, provided for student management of the company in the form of a student board of directors. This is the first year that the board has held regular meetings...