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When thousands of sentimental alums arrive in Cambridge this September for the fireworks celebration, this slim volume--packed with a collection of pictures from the Harvard Archives--will undoubtedly sell out at local bookstores. Indeed, the book jacket predicts that Glimpses "will quickly take an honored place on the shelves...
Almost 80 years after the great earthquake of April 1906, which killed more than 700 people, another tremor hit the San Francisco Bay Area last week. Measuring 5.3 on the Richter scale, vs. an estimated 8.3 for the '06 temblor, the quake for four seconds shook shelves and nerves from...
No such guarantees could be offered to fellow Europeans. The French were particularly concerned, since their importers not only sell Italian wine in supermarkets but also bring in bulk brands from Italy to fortify local products. At the ports of Sete and Marseilles, officials sequestered tankers carrying some 4.4 million...
Contac capsules have helped millions of Americans endure the sniffles, but last week every store in the U.S. that carried the popular cold remedy was ordered to get it off the shelves. Manufacturer SmithKline Beckman of Philadelphia was forced to recall Contac and two other fast-selling encapsulated products, the...
The reason was familiar and chilling: a murderous blackmailer intent on intimidating a corporation by poisoning its products. A man calling himself Gary telephoned ABC News claiming he had placed 25 tainted Contac capsules in stores throughout the country. ABC Anchor Peter Jennings tipped off SmithKline while judiciously holding the...