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...decisions in which he had participated, he cited the 1964 one-man, one-vote reapportionment ruling and the 1954 Brown school desegregation case. Then, surprisingly, he added a 1944 opinion that had established a clear formula under which "a utility was entitled to make a return sufficient to at tract capital and keep going." Douglas understood "the matters of corporate finance better than any lawyer I've ever known," says Harvard Law Professor Vern Countryman...
...convinced of that fact only late last month. Shortly after midnight on Oct. 27, Cathy Douglas touched the forehead of her sleeping husband and found it alarmingly hot with fever. Douglas was sped by ambulance to Walter Reed Army Medical Center, where doctors discovered that he had a urinary-tract infection. It was arrested, but physicians were shocked by the deterioration in Douglas' condition since he left the hospital last spring after a long convalescence from his stroke. An unusual nerve pain in the paralyzed areas on his left side had taken a severe toll. The Walter Reed doctors...
...ARCHIVE ALONE in Harvard Square will serve as a spur for a $50-million Harvard Square development project that is vital to the welfare of all of Cambridge. Without it most of the MBTA subway tract will revert to the state--possibly leading to uncoordinated development of the Square's southwest sector...
Many students object to the absence of extra-curricular activities, particularly athletics. The only sports sponsored by the school are occasional soccer games on a tract of land provided by Harvard. The school offers no recreational activities whatsoever for girls...
...between labor and management has many battlefields. One of them is a 70-acre tract of plants in the industrial Midlands town of Darlaston, eight miles north of begrimed Birmingham. The headquarters of Britain's largest privately held company, Rubery Owen Holdings, Ltd., the Darlaston plants are among the country's largest suppliers of components to the British automobile industry: frames for Jaguar, axles for Rover, gasoline tanks for Rolls-Royce. The plants are also the foundation of a family empire established by A.E. Owen in 1893 that now includes some 20 companies in seven countries. The Darlaston...