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...most Americans, these and similar recent events are unfamiliar. To those who learn about them, they are jolting evidence of the spread of unabashed homosexuality once thought to be confined to the worlds of theater, dance, fashion, etc. Similarly jolting have been public announcements of their homosexuality by a variety of people who could be anybody's neighbors?a Maryland teacher, a Texas minister, a Minnesota state senator, an Ohio professor, an Air Force sergeant...
There are a few minor exceptions--glimmers of hope that Harvard is finally waking up and moving in the right direction. In 1973, Presidents Bok and Horner jointly established an Office for the Arts which, although unfamiliar to most undergraduates, organizes special programs through the year, single-handedly runs the dance program, and operates as a fundraiser for the arts. Some students interested in studying dance or a musical instrument during the school year used the office as a referral service to teachers in the Cambridge/Boston area...
...over Sioux City, Iowa, it marked the passage of 75 heavy atomic particles hurtling in from outer space. One of the particles was distinctly different from the others. Its telltale track through a sandwich of three dozen sheets of plastic, nuclear emulsion and photographic film looked unfamiliar to cosmic-ray researchers. Last week, nearly two years after their equipment was brought back to earth, scientists from the universities of California and Houston finally offered an explanation. The unexpected particle, they said, was almost surely a magnetic monopole, the long-sought basic unit of magnetism...
Peterson said the new option may present unforeseen dangers if students are unfamiliar with the specifics of their family policy. "A student could get sick," he said, "and then discover that his family insurance doesn't cover that particular illness...
...bureau. "I just dial New York, the light comes on, and I send traffic. In Saigon I often had to wait two or three hours." Long is eager to learn better English. Indeed, the language barrier is the worst problem for the entire family, though American customs are as unfamiliar as the idiom. Accustomed to Saigon's strictly military parades, the Longs were surprised to find not only firemen and politicians but also schoolchildren marching in Corte Madera, Calif., on the Fourth of July. After seeing a drive-in movie theater and hearing about drive-in churches and banks...