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...Perella thought he could sidestep the pernicious culture-clash now consuming Morgan Stanley, where he's served as rainmaker and mentor for the firm's ?lite investment bankers for 12 years. But even Perella, a renowned dealmaker, couldn't find any middle ground in a family feud ignited the day the Ivy Leaguers at Morgan sold out to the hard-knocks brokers at Dean Witter Discover...
Saturday, April 16. Ralph Stanley & his Clinch Mountain Boys and the Peter Rowan/Tony Rice Quartet. 8 p.m., Sanders Theatre. $30, $25 students. Tickets available at Harvard Box Office...
...tried to forestall a crush by announcing that Nairobi's 4,000 hotel rooms would be held for the delegates to the official conference. But the hundreds of Forum participants who had made deposits for hotel rooms were outraged to learn that their reservations were invalid. At the New Stanley Hotel, American Feminists Bella Abzug and Betty Friedan staged a friendly protest in the lobby, with Friedan joining the ousted in a chorus of We Shall Not Be Moved. Eventually, solutions were found: many women tripled up, while some transferred to spartan, $17-a-night dorm rooms on campuses around...
...When Stanley Watras, a Bechtel Group engineer assigned to the Limerick nuclear-power plant in Boyertown, Pa., set off radiation monitors last winter, that in itself was unusual. Nuclear-plant workers rarely come into contact with radioactive substances during their daily routine. What disturbed Watras even more was that he tripped the detectors not while he was leaving the nuclear complex but when he was entering it. As a result, he requested that Limerick's owner, Philadelphia Electric Co. (PECO), check radiation levels at his house in Colebrookdale, Pa., a few miles from the plant...
...1960s the indirect approach to the Bomb seemed to be changing. In 1963 Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds was produced, and in 1964 Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove. One was a standard something-is-wrong-with-nature film that made monsters of benignities, the other a headlong black-comic attack on the nuclear threat. Dr. Strangelove even incorporated the subtheme of nature out of control in the Bomb-crazy Dr. Strangelove's right arm, which goes its own way, fondly recalls the doctor's Nazi days and at one point attempts to strangle its "master." Commercially, if not critically...