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...Conant's election to the presidency by the Board of Overseers two years earlier had come as a suprise to most people, including the man himself. Initially unhappy at the prospect of having to abandon a promising scientific career, Conant settled down to work and launched several projects that shook Old Harvard to the core of its being...
...people were really like. He confessed that in his own reporting from Tokyo, a one-hour work stoppage on a suburban rail line would become "a class battle," while a concert by a group of Soviet amateur musicians would be portrayed as a "triumph of Soviet art that shook Japan." Tsvetov concluded by calling on Soviet journalists to rid themselves of the "stereotyped mentality that forces them to describe news events only in black or white." He urged his colleagues to rely more on their audience's ability "to distinguish between good...
...week's end the press began to depart, but not everyone was happy. "None of you will ever come back," predicted one hotel clerk. He shook his head sorrowfully, then brightened. "That is, unless someday Communist guerrillas take over Trinidad...
...elderly man lowered his newspaper and stared at her. The baby commenced wailing again, its mother sighed and stared out the window of the un-moving train. The girl shook her head at her watch. The auxiliary train came up behind the filled train and as it moved towards Kendall Square, the boy said, "Man, this is really rotten service...I can't believe she wanted us to pay for it. That just ain't fair...
...described as over. At best, the deep-discount airline appeared to have bought additional, limited time in which to become a more traditional, full-service passenger carrier. That would be the very opposite of the strategy that in five years made the carrier's name a byword and irrevocably shook up the economics of U.S. flying...