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...water bordered on both sides by high-rise towers of volcanic rock and sheer sandstone cliffs, and inhabited by the densest nesting population of raptors, or birds of prey, anywhere in the world. Golden eagles perch on inaccessible crags; prairie and peregrine falcons launch themselves from cliff faces and soar into the high, crystalline desert sky. Eleven other species of raptor, from the diminutive robin-size kestrel, or sparrow hawk, to the stocky great horned owl, make their homes and raise their offspring in the canyon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Saving the Snake River | 5/15/1978 | See Source »

...month that holiday travel starts to soar, and this year vacationers will be offered a bagful of bargains in air fares−thanks in large part to an unlikely bureaucrat named Alfred Kahn. A lean, balding, hatchet-faced man who teeters back and forth in his high-backed leather chair, Kahn, 60, looks like a restless hawk. The image is apt. In less than a year as chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board, he has outdone any of his predecessors in shooing the airlines out of the cozy hen house of Government supervision that has protected and confined them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: A Happy Hawk in the Hen House | 5/8/1978 | See Source »

Somehow, I have not heard student leaders explaining the fact that total divestiture means less income to run the University as prices continue to soar and that, therefore, the deficit must be made up if Harvard is to continue to deliver the kind of education for which students have competed so hard to obtain. Even the divestiture process itself would cost a great deal of money. Without for a moment agreeing wholeheartedly with the Corporation's decision of April 27, I have to ask whether students have thought about what total divestiture might actually mean. In brief, it might increase...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Divestiture and Tuition | 5/5/1978 | See Source »

...Rents soar as construction cannot meet demand

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Tight U.S. Apartment Squeeze | 5/1/1978 | See Source »

When the temperatures soar into the 50s for the first time, the same thing is on everyone's mind. In the Quincy House dining hall signals are flashed, a word is muttered, and rumors begin...

Author: By Bill Ginsberg, | Title: When a Young Man's Fancy Turns to Whiffleball | 4/25/1978 | See Source »

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