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According to MBTA Engineer George Wey, the outbound tunnel from Harvard Square to Porter Square will come within feet of the gym, which is located on "very soft soil." In the past, the University worked out an agreement with the MBTA to soundproof and underpin certain Harvard buildings, including Wigglesworth and Wyeth Halls. But Wey says that no provisions have been made...
...aggressor included; (2) that no defense was possible against them; and (3) that, for both these reasons, they could have no conceivable political or military utility--except to deter otheres also armed with them. These assumptions, still widely held a third of a century after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, underpin our approach to SALT and explain the critical importance which we attach to it both in our defense planning and in our relations with the Soviet Union...
...liberty unless there is economic liberty. The E.E.C. treaty concentrates not on a declaration of human rights but on the economics of the free society: it shall be based on consumer choice and fair competition, freer movement of capital and people. It is the only economic treaty to really underpin liberty. Extinguish free enterprise and you extinguish liberty...
...media. The Crimson has chosen to make a hero of Mr. Yates for an action which was not only irresponsible but illegal. Mr. Yates poses the question: "Why should I have to defer to someone else's definition of acceptable risk?" The answer lies in the moral values which underpin our system of law: the belief that human life is sacred and, therefore, the individual is not free to sacrifice...
This view may be dating rapidly, yet it serves to underpin Auchincloss's latest novel. The Dark Lady. It is a Social Register version of A Star Is Born-a tale of two women allied in a successful assault on wealth, fame and political power. The star is Elesina Dart, a beauty of good background who has gone through two marriages and flubbed one promising theatrical career. The impresario is Ivy Trask, a cynical, shrewd middle-aged fashion editor and social arbiter at Broadlawns, the Westchester estate of Judge Irving Stein, banker and art collector...