Word: seeds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Seed Money...
...enough for Harvard and M.I.T. to loan their planning officers and architecture professors to Cambridge in advisory roles. Speed is essential and in this case speed means money. To hurry housing construction, both schools have several options: they could provide "seed money" to finance construction, that is, an initial investment from their endowments which would be pulled out as soon as outside investment had come; they could donate some of their widespread land holdings as construction sites or sell them at below market-level costs; they could even construct non-university housing themselves and donate it or sell it cheaply...
...concentrating on mass-breeding pearlfish in his laboratory, attempting to produce enough to "seed" California's rice fields and, eventually, the flood plains in California and other states. He envisons the day when many of the intermittently flooded fields in the U.S. will be rich in pearlfish eggs. Then as spring rains herald another flood season, millions of eggs will hatch, providing nature's own form of instant mosquito control...
Harvard's Dick Appleby, top-seed of the "B" singles, was upset in the quarter-finals by Penn's Levin, 1-6, 9-7, 6-4, but Crimson captain Brian Davis reached the finals by beating Penn's Richie Cohen...
Appleby and Davis dropped their opening "B" doubles match to Cornell, 6-3, 7-9, 8-6, even though the Crimson team was the top seed...