Word: ued
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spite of the inadequacy of the Allston plan, Charles U. Daly, vice president for government and community affairs, did not come to the Kennedy board meeting emptyhanded. Daly offered more than $3 million of Harvard's money to the Kennedy corporation, to be given through direct payment and land transactions. The payment would enable the corporation to afford the Charlestown-Cambridge split. The offer figured heavily in the corporation's decision to give Harvard a reprieve, until the fall. Harvard must now present a comprehensive Charlestown-Cambridge package to match what UMass is offering...
...predicts a speedy and unobstructed power plant ground-breaking for the fall. Moulton suggests that Harvard isn't worried about any of the aspects of the power plant or housing project plans right now--except for the tight bond market that could hold up the project's construction. Charles U. Daly, vice president for government and community affairs, says of the housing bonds, "The welfare of the project is tied to what Abe Beame and Governor Carey do in New York City." But Moulton even seems confident about that. Because of the "unusual financial possibilities" of the housing, he says...
Nevertheless, the palm reading episode stirred a great deal of controversy within the Harvard community. While Hall talked in terms of the money it could save for Harvard, Champion and Charles U. Daly, vice president for government and community affairs, worried about the "human" implications and shuddered at visions of a New York Times story playing on the "1984 at Harvard" theme...
...elsewhere about the possibility of controlled atomic fission. "Believe we have observed new phenomenon of far-reaching consequences," he scrawled in a diary. Dunning's later research showed that Uranium 235 was the most fissionable isotope, a discovery that led to the gas-diffusion method of refining U-235, currently used in nuclear bombs and most atomic power plants...
When Marxist rebels from Zaïre threatened last May to kill three kidnaped students in Tanzania-two of them Americans from Stanford University and the third Dutch-U.S. Ambassador W. Beverly Carter decided to bend a few of the State Department rules that forbid diplomats to get involved in negotiations with terrorists. He put embassy facilities in Tanzania at the disposal of the students' parents, helped them to get in touch with the kidnapers, and did what he could to assist the negotiations, which ended with the release of all of the students by July...