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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...March, when unusual amounts of steam or smoke began rising from the Sherman Crater, a 1,600-ft.-wide depression left just below the summit by an earlier eruption. Fearful that the steam could melt snow and trigger giant mudslides, the Forest Service closed the shoreline of Baker Lake, shut down several nearby campgrounds, and put much of the mountain off limits...
Weighing the evidence, McCloy's committee decided that there was "no basis" on which to conclude that Dorsey knew about all of Gulf s unlawful political contributions. But the report added that Dorsey "perhaps chose to shut his eyes to what was going on. Had he been more alert to the problem, he was in a ready position to inquire about and put an end to it." To cover all this material took seven hours. The directors adjourned...
Using a pressure man-to-man defense, they "shut off the lane very well," according to manager Tom Welch. Bob Hooft, who is leading Harvard with a 28.9 scoring average, was unsuccessful driving inside and paced the Crimson scoring with only 13 points...
...secret aid to non-Communist Italian parties-most of it, apparently, to the ruling Christian Democrats. Then, the day after Premier Moro rode to the Palazzo del Quirinale to tender his resignation to President Giovanni Leone, millions of workers walked off the job in a general strike that shut down airports, closed most government offices and schools and slowed down sectors of industry. The workers were striking in sympathy with 200,000 civil servants who were still waiting for approval of new labor contracts that expired last year. Politicians of other parties blamed the Socialists for the chaos. "With...
...convinced that despite the unfortunate freeze-ups the program at Harvard over vacation was very successful," Hall said, adding that less than 5 per cent of the 357 Harvard buildings involved in the shut-down were damaged by the floods...