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Harvard Square became a boomtown over the summer: as several new buildings sprang up in what were vacant lots when students left...
Randolph Catlin Jr. became head of University Health Services' mental health division, rising from his previous position as chief of clinical services with that department. Catlin, who has been at Harvard since 1965, fills a post vacant since Dr. Paul Walters left in the spring. Catlin has promised to reach out more into the community and seek public opinion on the health services...
...before this book came out. His story opens with an endearingly manic-depressive editor who leaps naked from an eleventh-floor window before it can be determined whether the man resembles either A.M. Rosenthal or Arthur Gelb. The event touches off a torrid competition for the newly vacant editorship among a B-movie cast of newsroom characters: the likable but alcoholic deputy managing editor, the sober but inexperienced female national editor, the experienced but unpolished Jewish city editor, the polished but unassertive Wasp foreign editor, the assertive but black Washington bureau chief. Why do they want a job that helped...
...attempt by Mugabe to administer a final blow to Nkomo's waning political prospects failed only narrowly last week. Invoking a law that requires the Zimbabwean Parliament to declare a seat vacant if any member misses 21 consecutive sittings, Mugabe's ruling ZANU-P.F. Party called a vote to strip Nkomo of his parliamentary seat. When the embarrassed leadership realized that not enough members were present in Parliament to provide the necessary majority, it postponed the decision. In London, Nkomo warned glumly that "if I don't go back, there will...
...tactics eventually posed a logistical crisis. The building in which the conference was being held had been booked to accommodate journalists attending last summer's soccer World Cup. Thanks primarily to the East-West dispute over Poland's imposition of martial law, the conference site was left vacant all summer for the use of soccer fans...