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...cannot afford, in terms of lives, money, or morale. In addition, a spiralling inflation rate, presently 42 percent, a poor balance of payments deficit of roughly $3.5 billion, and dwindling foreign donations (due to a world recession) have plunged the country into an economic depression. And to increase discontent, sever and unpopular austerity measures have been imposed...
...black-tie openings kept the museums of the Boston area and its formal-wear renters in happy collusion this week. Tuesday night, the Fogg Museum presented its latest original exhibit--investigating the works of 19th century architect H. H. Richardson. Richardson, who created Sever and Austin Halls among other masterpieces, was very cooperative in leaving his old blueprints lying around for the sake of posterity. They are very handsomely exhibited here, with early pictures of the buildings and Richardson's writing. A sneak preview of the show last Sunday proved fascinating. Now, with the finishing touches added, it should...
Nonetheless, the architects endowed Harvard with a veritable firmament of bannisters. At the top of the list is Sever Hall, already renowned for another architectural idiosyncrasy--the whispering arch. The glorious wooden bannisters in Sever's concourse are the slickest and longest at Harvard, and any student sophomoric enough to slide down between classes will surely make a bang, even if he or she doesn't crash through the glass doors. Matthews Hall and the Science Center have challenging and steep bannisters that should test the mettle of any slider who looks over the edge to the chasm below...
Ironically, the divorce law had started no stampede of Italian couples eager to sever the bonds of wedlock. It is still the toughest divorce statute in Europe...
Rogers said Spinola seems confident that a majority of the blacks in each of the colonies will not want to sever all ties to Portugal. Dike, noting that the revolutionary armies in each colony have already publicly rejected anything less than full independence, said that the wars, which have been waged for over a decade, may continue...