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The wide sidewalks still give the city a particular sense. They are paved in the middle with a narrow course of slabs or concrete, and on either side with a broad extent of small granite cobbles. Like everything else here, they are constantly under construction. Piles of stone chunks and...

Author: By Phil Patton, | Title: Letter from Berlin | 8/17/1973 | See Source »

Last year, while I was looking through old volumes of the Crimson researching something I was writing, I came across a story from the 1920s about an airplane crash on Soldiers' Field. I have forgotten the pilot's name, but his passenger was Gordon Cairnie. The only casualties were a...

Author: By Michael Ryan, | Title: Gordon Cairnie 1895-1973 | 7/24/1973 | See Source »

Backstage for the Ervin committee means the other side of the street. While the hearings take place in the Senate's colonnaded Caucus Room, across First Street the staff labors in quarters that resemble a hastily established World War II recruiting office. A huge workroom has been thrown together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Backstage with the Ervin Panel | 7/23/1973 | See Source »

Angered by the brutal scene, several residents ran onto the soccer field separating the buildings from the Wall. Some started tearing out concrete slabs with their bare hands. Others joined them, and soon some 300 men, women and children were at the Wall, screaming their frustration and anger at the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BERLIN: Anger at the Wall | 7/23/1973 | See Source »

3) He urged the creation of a federal Energy Research and Development Administration. Its main asset would be the AEC's technical expertise and facilities. Beyond that, the agency would collect in one place the federal research efforts now scattered among the AEC (nuclear power), the Interior Department (coal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Phase II for Energy | 7/9/1973 | See Source »

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