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...workers is a miserable patchwork, almost as if patterned on the primitive mud huts of the Iranian countryside. Open sewers flank the area, while dogs nose their way through mounds of exposed garbage. The smell of filth permeates the air. The only sign of 20th century amenities is a spate of television aerials atop most of the homes. "They tried to buy us with television," says one of the local strike leaders, who would identify himself only with the nom de guerre Hossein. "My father used to tell us about this land with tears in his eyes. When I first...
...spate of Harvard turnovers resulted in a big lead for the visitors at the end of the first half. In the early going, however, the scoring swayed back and forth with the Wildcat women failing to cash in on Harvard's sloppy play...
...Italy a spate of bombings in several cities confirmed that terrorists there were still on the loose. A 46-year-old foreman at the Lancia automobile plant in Turin was fatally wounded by Red Brigades assassins. Next day, Ippolito Bestonso, 66, an Alfa Romeo executive, was "kneecapped" outside his home in Milan by three youths who fired six bullets into his legs. In no hurry to flee, they followed up the shooting by handcuffing their victim and hanging a poster bearing the red star symbol of the Red Brigades around his neck...
Scientists are not the only ones smitten by black-hole fever. The parcels of nothingness are a favorite topic on the lecture circuit. They bring out record crowds for planetarium shows, and they have lately been the theme of a spate of books. In the popular lexicon, the term black hole once suggested only the legendary hellish cell in Calcutta in which British prisoners were held by an 18th century Indian nawab. Now it has become an immediately recognizable catchword for a different kind of darkness. Says one young astrophysicist...
...issue is less complicated than some members of the Harvard Corporation would make it seem. The University has consumed more than five months in a spate of correspondence, largely cosmetic open hearings, reports and committee meetings. These actions have repeatedly brought forth the same basic set of facts to the Corporation. The University's indecisiveness while hundreds of South African blacks face arbitrary imprisonment or even death by starvation demonstrates that the Corporation is either seriously, if honestly, misguided, or is engaged in a censurable policy of delay and obfuscation...