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Saltonstall said the failure occurred when Facilities and Maintenance (F&M) workers preparing to turn on the University's steam heating system inadvertently flooded the electrical vault in the basement of Eliot House...
According to Saltonstall, the pipes leaked and flooded into the vault because while Eliot was being renovated this summer, workers out the pipes to install new electrical equipment. However, the workers neglected to recap the pipes...
...took almost 12 hours to restore power to Eliot because the electrical vault had to be fully surveyed, but workmen at Eliot House declined comment early today on the extent of damage to the vault...
...yesterday, Carlson said that the damage in the vault appeared "relatively minor", but facilities and maintenance still called in a testing company to inspect Eliot House's primary electrical system, the outlets serving student rooms...
...track-and-field events, the Soviet-bloc men outdid their hypothetical Olympic rivals in nine. Power, not speed, was their forte. In the brawny field events-hammer, javelin, discus and shotput-three Soviet athletes and one East German exceeded the winning distances in Los Angeles. In the pole vault, the high-flying Konstantin Volkov of the the U.S.S.R. cleared 19 ft. ¼in., two inches higher than the winning Olympic vault. Five world records were achieved in the pool. "The water is fast here," said one Soviet fan, and 6-ft. 4-in. Sergei Zabolotnov proved...