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...SUBSTANTIAL sum of renovations money went to constructing a new house office for Cabot House. The new space is two stories high, with glass encased offices on either side of an open arena, and it is beautiful. But Cabot House already had a house office. It also had a 10-man suite--that served as the locale for many a South House party--that had to be razed to make room for the new office...
...fulfill the goals Reagan announced last month, White House aides realize that in the era of Gramm-Rudman they must fight drugs on the cheap. One top Administration official privately tempered the President's high-flown rhetoric with bottom-line bureaucratese. Said he: "You've got a zero-sum game as far as budgeting goes...
Like many other university presidents, Pusey was much concerned with fund raising. In 1956 he launched a successful campaign to raise the then unprecedented sum of $82.5 million for new professorships, faculty salaries and scholarships. By 1968 he had increased the university's endowment to $1 billion. But these were times of extreme discord, and many students paid little attention to Pusey's ambitions. In the fall of 1967 a band of about 250 leftist students trapped a recruiter for the Dow Chemical Co., chief manufacturer of the napalm being used in Viet Nam, and held him prisoner for seven...
...Columbia University mathematician, Edward Kasner, announced the discovery of a new type of geometry, in which, The Times said, "the sum of the measure of the parts is greater than the measure of the whole...
...Turner has often sailed daringly close to the wind, sometimes taking a soaking. In 1985 he failed to carry off a $5.4 billion takeover of CBS on behalf of his flagship Turner Broadcasting System, only to bob back seven months later by taking over MGM/UA for the startling sum of $1.7 billion. Then he aimed at nothing less than boosting world peace with his Moscow Goodwill Games in July, which failed to attract the huge TV audience he had expected. Last week the ebullient Turner dipped into the water again when second-quarter results from TBS showed a loss...