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...prefer to stay put when Harvard finally gets around to recognizing their talents. Third, Harvard may also be losing junior talent who prefer to work at a school where they have a shot at tenure, instead of setting up shop in Cambridge for seven years and then folding the tent once Harvard has turned up its nose...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sign of the Times | 9/18/1986 | See Source »

Also attending the ceremony under a blue-and-white striped tent were Rose Kennedy's grandson Joseph P. Kennedy II, who is a Democratic candidate in the Eighth Congressional District race, and Steven Coyle, director of the Boston Redevelopment Authority, which is building the park...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Boston Park To Honor Kennedy | 9/15/1986 | See Source »

...breathing thin air at $1,250, Withington might make a fist in the direction of the groggy second bidder and say, "Pow! He's out cold." The joshing might revive the wounded warrior. If not, it would liven the mood of the dealers and collectors gathered here in the tent behind his barn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: American Scene in New Hampshire: and You're a Winner! | 9/8/1986 | See Source »

...most vivid memory of the 300th is watching Franklin Delano Roosevelt ['04], who was President, sitting in a top hat and morning coat. He was protected by a tent as the rain poured down," Stephenson says. "The rest of us, though, we just sat and got soaked...

Author: By Michael D. Nolan, | Title: Orchestrating a Family Affair: Stephenson Juggles a Big Ball | 9/4/1986 | See Source »

...Maine and Tennessee swoop in, bringing assistance from all over the country and swelling the local fire-fighting ranks from 6,000 to 17,000. Four C-141 transports loaned by the U.S. Air Force are bringing in reinforcements and supplies, while 36 helicopters fight the blazes from above. Tent cities are springing up in places with names like Sled Springs, near major conflagrations. Around the clock, caravans of yellow school buses deposit scores of yellow-shirted fire fighters. Senior citizens in Enterprise, Ore., spend their mornings stuffing 1,800 beef and ham ^ sandwiches for the blaze busters' lunch. Sophisticated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battle of the Blazes | 8/25/1986 | See Source »

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