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...father of one boy I know works as a janitor in an office complex. He works for ten, sometimes for fifteen hours, every day. His work is in an unseen "second basement" underneath the "regular" sub-basement of the tallest skyscraper in Boston. He works so many deep and sunless meters underneath the level of the lobby floor, that he is even underneath the level of the turnpike that runs underneath the building. I talk with him often in the evening hours after he returns from work: coated with dirt and broken with exhaustion. This man, 56 years...

Author: By Jonathan Kozol, | Title: Harvard's Role In Perpetuation Of Class-Exploitation | 10/31/1973 | See Source »

Dartmouth was a real pressure game for Harvard. And the prevailing question circulating in Cambridge was could the Crimson come off an emotionally and physically draining victory over Cornell to defeat a sub-par version of a Dartmouth team they had not beaten in five years. Jimmy the Greek thought they could. Boston bookies thought they could. So much for the oddsmakers. Dartmouth humbled Harvard...

Author: By Kim G. Davis, | Title: Both Offense and Defense Looked Flat After Last Week's Win Over Cornell | 10/29/1973 | See Source »

...Though automakers earn their richest profits on big cars, they are turning out all the small autos that they can, and even so may be unable to meet demand. General Motors is spending $300 million to increase production, most of it for its compacts, Nova and Omega, and its sub-compact Vega. Ford has started a $250 million construction program to boost output of its Pintos, Comets and Mavericks. Chrysler is also expanding production facilities for its Valiant and Dart compacts. To fatten the relatively slender profits from smaller cars, manufacturers are loading the 1974 compacts with all kinds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: The New-Model Gamble | 10/15/1973 | See Source »

Three as yet unselected Harvard students will travel to sub-Sahara Africa in January to assist Mali tribesmen in building an adequate and reliable water supply system...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Students to Help Build Water Supply for Sub-Sahara | 10/11/1973 | See Source »

...field was a ditch (not a big ditch, grant you, but very distinctly a ditch) full of water. That was the other goal line. Down the middle of the field ran another ditch, which subdivided the field lengthwise, splitting the playing surface like a tommy's sub...

Author: By Peter A. Landry, | Title: Petering Out | 10/6/1973 | See Source »

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