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Harvard yesterday asked the City of Cambridge for a zoning change to permit construction of 300 units of Faculty housing on a long-controversial tract of land near the Divinity School...

Author: By William R. Galeota, | Title: Harvard Seeks To Rezone Its Housing on Shady Hill | 2/24/1970 | See Source »

...extent this production is a make it of break it proposition. If people don't see this production as a good play representative of a touring concept. Theatron lose, whether or not they see it as a great play. And great concepts putting on poor plays don't at tract many people, either...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Goes On Tour With Brecht's'A Man's A Man' | 2/24/1970 | See Source »

...first exegesis came from Speechwriter William Safire, 40, who wrote a 19-page tract entitled "New Federalist Paper #1, by Publius"-in imitation of the Federalist Papers, signed "Publius," by Hamilton, Madison and Jay (TIME, Jan. 26). Nowhere does New Publius attempt to equal the lucid grace of the original, but his essay is an enthusiastic effort to erect some theoretical carapace over Nixon's policies. "The purpose of the New Federalism," writes New Publius, "is to come to grips with a paradox: a need for both national unity and local diversity; a need to protect both individual equality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Goto v. Publius in the White House | 2/23/1970 | See Source »

...infant described in the Journal of the A.M.A. was born with equally severe internal problems. An autopsy showed that she had an enlarged right heart, two holes in the walls dividing the chambers of the heart, and a long catalogue of abnormalities involving the kidneys, lungs, liver, pancreas, digestive tract and genitalia. What had caused her horrible deformation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Price of a Trip? | 2/23/1970 | See Source »

...that not everyone has found mutual labial stimulation appealing. To the Chinese, for example, kissing had revolting associations with cannibalism. Even Dr. Freud seemed standoffish when he observed in his essay, "The Sexual Aberrations," that the lips are composed of mucous membrane and constitute the entrance to the digestive tract...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lip Service | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

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