Word: toweritis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Drayton said he had some reservations about the scholarship because of its origin. He was active in the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee as an undergraduate, said he was among the students who built the plywood Ivory Tower that formed the centerpiece of Harvard Yard's "shantytown" in the spring...
Students who spoke with Carne Friday night,said they last saw him in an unusually good mood.Cynthia V. Hooper '89 and Marissa E. Ghez '89 saidthey ate dinner with him in Mather House, where hewas discussing plans to woo a student who lived inthe Mather tower...
...release of American hostages. The next morning the President's top advisers, including Bush, gathered in the Oval Office. George Shultz and Caspar Weinberger testified that they vigorously opposed the arms sales, arguing that they would undermine the Administration's policy against terrorism. "I was intense," Shultz told the Tower commission. "Everybody was well aware of my views." By the end of the meeting, Shultz testified, it was clear that the President and the Vice President disagreed with...
...permitting the sub to dive to depths between layers of water at different temperatures where it can hide from enemy sonar. When it comes time to surface, not even the polar ice cap will be able to keep the Seawolf down. The low, streamlined sail -- conning tower to landlubbers -- will be hardened to absorb the shock of breaking through the ice. Retractable bow planes will permit the Seawolf to navigate under the Arctic, the huge (5.4 million sq. mi.) new battleground of underwater war. The multiblade, controllable-pitch screw propeller will be encased in a meticulously designed shroud to reduce...
Musically he is just as busy: discussing a movie deal with Universal Pictures for a cinematic version of his roller-skating-trains musical Starlight, bruiting the possibility of writing a movie score for his Trump Tower neighbor Steven Spielberg, and launching plans for a U.S. production company with Director Harold Prince to seek out and stage new American musicals. "Music is born into Andrew," says Brightman. "Music just comes out of him. Without it, he wouldn't be Andrew...