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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Coop will rent two floors in addition to the one it presently occupies in the Harvard Trust building and 6500 square feet of a new Brattle St. shopping mall, Charles F. Wu '79, a student member of the Coop board of directors, said yesterday...
...union demonstrated its dual concern for patients and workers in the case of St. John of God, a convalescent hospital in Brighton that houses chronic care patients. The hospital was scheduled to be closed for a lack of funds, but doctors estimated that 30 per cent of the patients might die if they were moved. The union took up the case, lobbied against the closing -- and the hospital stayed open. Damman remembers how important the issue was to those involved, and how it felt to help them. "People were furious at the idea their relatives would have to be moved...
...back on the road, went all the way to Portland that night, slept in the Greyhound station and next morning got on the eastbound bus and didn't get off until I had reached St. Louis two and a half days later, having seen the Rockies and Salt Lake City and the Great Plains as one great blur en route. Thanks to a friend in St. Louis, I had a nice warm bed and some home cooking again. I gave up all pretense to membership in the great club of hippies, freaks, road people and adventures. Six days, four friends...
DIED. Frederick K. Weyerhaeuser, 83, former board chairman of Weyerhaeuser Co., and uncle of its current president, George, victim of a highly publicized kidnaping in 1935; in St. Paul. The Yale-educated grandson of the company's founder, Weyerhaeuser worked his college summers in sawmills and after graduation moved into lumber sales, becoming the firm's chairman in 1955. Mindful of the need to replant his forests, Weyerhaeuser once observed that there are few men "who are willing to plunk down $1 million every year on ventures that won't pay off until the middle...
...Gilson, 94, renowned medieval philosophy scholar (among his works: History of Christian Philosophy in the Middle Ages) and oldest member of the French Academy; in Cravant, France. Gilson, son of a Paris businessman, was a devout Roman Catholic who gained lasting distinction in his field for his writings on St. Thomas Aquinas. Though he lectured at universities throughout France and the U.S., the Sorbonne-trained philosopher taught primarily at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies in Toronto, which he helped launch...