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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...back in August 1976, when Harvard's proposal to build a special containment laboratory for recombinant DNA research sparked intense protest from the Cambridge City Council, among others. An acrimonious debate followed on the safety of such gene-splicing research and the propriety of building the lab within the rundown, insect-infested Biological Laboratories...
...summer camp calls itself an "experimental lab." The director insists that even swimming is "political." The children put on plays about heroic workers. Mao's China? A Soviet youth Komsomol? No, Santa Barbara, Calif. Situated in a rundown redwood ranch house nestled among the scrub oaks and laurels in the hills above the city, a unique camp run by those indefatigable activists Tom Hayden and Jane Fonda opened this summer for 150 youngsters from...
...maintaining employment in his district, Tsongas points to downtown development of older cities as a way of dealing with the problem. He never fails to inform listeners of the major achievement of his four years in Congress--authoring legislation, which was recently signed into law, to get the rundown city of Lowell declared as an urban national park--to commemorate it as the country's first planned industrial city. As a result, he maintains, the city will be able to tap federal funds for its revitalization efforts and new industry will be attracted to Lowell and along with them...
Having made some pledges at Bonn, the leaders now must try to sell them to their legislatures back home, and in several cases that will be difficult. Here is an area-by-area rundown of the plights and promises of the Seven...
That's just the start. Twice a week, we bring you incisive reviews of the arts scene in and around Boston, and opinions on major movies and books that appear over the summer months. And every Friday The Crimson's Third Page gives you a rundown of what's happening outside Harvard--movies, plays, dancing, concerts. Just what you need to plan your weekend...