Word: shannon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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FRESHMEN WANDERING over to shannon Hall this year will find it difficult to imagine the battle lines drawn at Harvard in 1969. No longer do framed pictures of bombers, battleships and missiles decorate Shannon's corridors. No longer do Harvard classroom discussions revolve around issues of "the professional officer" and "advanced tactical concepts...
Once the headquarters for Harvard's Reserve Officer Training Corps units, Shannon today is a typical classroom building devoted to seminar rooms, labs, and teaching fellows' offices. Its most militant cry is an occasional child's scream wafting upwards from the day care center which occupies territory in Shannon's basement...
...sports a mustache and aviator glasses now, and lives in a comfortable adobe house in suburban Albuquerque. On the dining room wall hangs the coat of arms that indicates that James P. Shannon (TIME cover, Feb. 23, 1970) used to be a bishop of the Roman Catholic Church. Shannon, 52, was named outstanding graduate of his class and gave the commencement speech when he graduated from the University of New Mexico law school this week. He will join a prominent Albuquerque law firm, where he may handle suits to protect the water rights of the poor in the Southwest. Shannon...
...first, it seemed like a worthy and public-spirited idea. The Fredericksburg, Va., realty office of Shannon & Luchs set aside $2,200 and offered to pay 10 for each can found littering the local roadsides. Alas, the firm had underestimated the fervor of the environmental movement. Last week a parking lot adjacent to the realty office was buried under a mountain of cans, all put into plastic bags. Ten ft. high and 190 ft. in diameter, the pile contained 585,156 cans brought in before the offer expired and another 100,000 or so that came in after the deadline...
That left Shannon & Luchs with two problems: 1) honoring the $3,651.56 worth of lOUs that were given out when the original $2,200 was exhausted, and 2) disposing of the cans. The realty company sought the help of local businessmen and collected $700. The townspeople hope to meet the remaining deficit of nearly $3,000 by holding a big benefit dance or carnival later this month. To the disappointment of ardent environmentalists, all of the cans will eventually be buried as landfill; earlier plans to recycle the aluminum containers had to be abandoned. Reason: insufficient manpower to separate them...