Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...involvement in some of the more spectacular phonies foisted on the West. The so-called "memoir" by the late Maxim Litvinov, Stalin's Foreign Commissar, was actually produced by a Soviet defector in Paris, while The Penkovsky Papers, purportedly the diaries of a spy in the upper echelon of the Soviet intelligence system who was caught and shot, were allegedly partly concocted...
Genevieve Austin, Radcliffe dean of residence, said that it will not be possible to increase the number of Radcliffe women living in the Houses to more than 100, because of the need to maintain a "favorable balance" of upper-class women living in the Quad. "Spreading 400 women thinly among nine Houses averages to 44 women per House-not a very healthy balance," Austin said...
...article which appeared in this week's Juche newspaper denounces his "power and money game... stretching to a plastics corporation in Maine, properties in Roxbury, a housing project in Pittsfield, Mass., and construction in upper New York state...
...Pines also saw signs of progress. In Upper Silesia's grimy cities-Katowice, Swietochlowice, Chorzow-bulldozers are pushing slag heaps into craters caused by crumbling mines. Carefully planned parks and green belts are starting to sprout on the reclaimed land. Government officials now demand attention to "the human element" in all new projects-less noise, better designed apartments, conveniently located cultural facilities. More important, the causes of pollution are slowly being controlled. In the past four years, 14% of the mining and power industries' capital investment went for environmental safeguards. Compulsory filters in factory stacks have...
Gordon frequently walks from his home in the upper East Eighties to Wall Street offices of Kidder, Peabody, Inc., at the foot of Manhattan, a walk that could kill most middle-aged executives. His son. John Gordon '71, starting halfback on the soccer team, gives him a slight head-start in a three-and-a-half mile race and has trouble beating...