Word: sumner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...litany of city complaints against the University include the eviction of tenants in buildings on Mellon, Ware and Sumner Streets and a low-interest loan program for faculty members that city officials fear will dry up the already near-barren Cambridge housing market...
Tenants suggested both the possible rollback of the eviction date and the use of the connected cellars of 7 Sumner and 3 Sumner for office or storage space...
...went mad over higher education. Giving every teen-ager an opportunity to go to college became a mark of American grandeur in the world. It was a silly delusion." Northwestern's Ellis puts it more simply: "We let ourselves get fat." Sound management principles were ignored. Argues Sumner G. Rahr, a fund-raising consultant: "The businessmen on college boards didn't apply tough financial standards at board meetings. They figured, 'Oh, the nuns will come through again,' or 'Old Mr. Chips will bail...
...that Jim Rice missed the first half of a doubleheader during the pennant stretch because a car caught fire in front of him in Sumner Tunnel...
...Ambassador Sumner Gerard has protested that the CIA is not in any manner trying to upset the Jamaican government, even though Washington is less than happy about Manley's warming friendship with Fidel Castro. Gerard's denials were reinforced last week by William H. Luers, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Affairs, who told a House subcommittee that allegations of U.S. interference were "totally false." If American citizens are engaged privately in "destabilizing" activities, Luers added, "we are prepared to cooperate fully with the governments of the area to bring them to justice...