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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cambridge Electron Accelerator yesterday injured eight Harvard and MIT scientists and research technicians, three of them critically. The multi-million dollar explosion ripped apart the entire roof of the circular experiment section of the CEA complex, severely damaged a $1,000,000 hydrogen bubble chamber, and destroyed an elevator shaft in the adjoining administrative section of the structure...

Author: By Jim Cramer, | Title: The Inevitability of Discovery. . . | 7/13/1976 | See Source »

...Sleep. None of this detracts from Chandler's ability to separate the amateur from the prose. Modern Russian literature is supposed to have tumbled from Gogol's overcoat; the American detective - from Ross MacDonald's Lew Archer to Gordon Parks' Shaft - enters in Philip Marlowe's trench coat. Even Dashiell Hammett's earlier fictions have not been so pervasive - largely, as Chandler noted, because "his writing has no echo and no tone." Chandler's does. The shady poetry of his similes ("I was as out of place as a tarantula on a wedding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Incorrodable Shamus | 6/21/1976 | See Source »

Students demonstrated their anger by staging a brief boycott of classes. Some 6,000 attended a protest rally sponsored by an organization called Students Helping Academic Freedom at Texas (SHAFT), chanting "Quit." "Quit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Regents' Choice | 10/6/1975 | See Source »

...holding sessions that start at 9 in the morning and last until 10:30 p.m. Reardon described the meetings as a careful balancing of viewpoints on what will make the best class: "One thinks there aren't enough all-round kids, and another thinks musicians really get the shaft...

Author: By Mark J. Penn, | Title: How You Got in Here | 9/1/1975 | See Source »

...watch 11,000 TV murders by the time he is 14. In Boston, a woman was doused with gasoline and set afire shortly after a TV movie featured a similar scene. In Chicago, several murders have followed in vivid detail some inventive killings in the TV detective series Shaft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: THE CRIME WAVE | 6/30/1975 | See Source »

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