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Despite the Cambridge community's antagonism towards a complex that the Kennedy family thought anybody would love to have in their neighborhood, despite the additional financial problems caused by the spit site, despite the inherent disadvantages of separating the two portions of the complex, the Kennedy Corporation's board of directors--made up predominantly of Harvard graduates--seems to bend over backwards to keep Harvard's options open...

Author: By James Cramer, | Title: An Overdue Library | 9/15/1975 | See Source »

...only be termed a grim and desparate picture of urban civilization, and countless discotheques besides--nets them a grimy handful of none-too-virtuous witnesses who would just as well cast all blame on the suspect, Jimmy Johnson. A man who, it seems, has already been chewed off and spit out by this world, Johnson is ritually pronounced Guilty by his peers and shuffled off to life-long incarceration...

Author: By Philip Weiss, | Title: Philip Marlowe and Jesus Christ on Cape Cod | 9/15/1975 | See Source »

...with lank straight hair, who might almost pass for a Hindu." At that point his parents farmed him out to relatives in England, sadistic moralists after the Dickensian type who brutalized him until public school took over. The battered child became a lifelong hater who never quite managed to spit out all his venom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Light That Triumphed | 9/8/1975 | See Source »

Then we lick across the broadness of Nebraska--a monolonous, wide-butted stretch of sod. Smiling, broad curves traced in speed fling us onward, out between trucks that grind the air to a pulp and spit a back on us with 14 gears of churning cunning. Plunging to the depth of America--not East and not West, but vastly in between, we seem perched here forever-about nine hours...

Author: By Edmund Horsey, | Title: Elsewhere in the Summer, and an Elk Head | 7/15/1975 | See Source »

Horowitz looked up at the counters and scopes that caught the radiation bouncing off the apple, measured pulses, and eventually spit out sets of numbers that revealed which heavy elements were present. He made some quick calculations, and detected iron and calcium--he expected them. He looked at a third set of numbers, and found that it was arsenic--about 30 parts per million...

Author: By Thomas H. Lee, | Title: A Boy Wonder Finds a Home | 1/15/1975 | See Source »

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