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...white metal related to platinum and gold. In the spring of 1977, Geologist Walter Alvarez of the University of California, Berkeley, was carefully chiseling through the rocks outside Gubbio, a medieval Italian town halfway between Florence and Rome, seeking clues to continental drift. Gubbio has long been an appealing site to geologists and paleontologists because its rocks provide a complete geological record of the critical boundary line between the end of the Cretaceous period, when the dinosaurs disappeared, and the Tertiary period, which followed...
Journeying to Denmark, another site where the Cretaceous geological record is complete, Walter Alvarez gathered corroborating samples of iridium and received still more from colleagues working at a third site on the other side of the world, in New Zealand. The evidence seemed overwhelming. In 1980 the Alvarez team finally published its results in the journal Science and stirred up some scientific debris of its own. Says Paleontologist Leo Hickey, director of the Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale: "My first thought was this is one of Walter's practical jokes...
University officials said yesterday's events marked the first time since 1966 that students forcibly prevented a visiting dignitary from leaving the site of a Harvard appearance. The last such incident, which involved then-Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara and a mob of 800, was the first major event of the Vietnam protest movement at Harvard. This is some of what The Crimson reported on November...
...spring of 1982, when the stadium underwent renovations, the Harvard track team was left without any home at all. The push for a new facility began in earnest, and when funds became available, the intramural field behind the stadium was chosen as the site and construction started...
...only remaining negative aspect of the track is the gusty winds that plague the site. The winds not only keep the times from falling as low as they might, they also add an undesirable Arctic pect to the competitions...