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While the House renovations will grip under graduates and alter student life for at least three more years, the fire alarm routine may not. Warren F. Clancy, Harvard's superintendent of technical services, believes the alarm frequency will drop, following a customary "shake-down" period and growing familiarity with the easily triggered devices. He notes that while the number of detectors increased from 380 to 2227 between September and April, the number of fire alarms per month had only doubled, rising from 26 to 57. He adds that, in a typical month, the majority of the alarms are triggered...
...Coleman Jr., a prominent Washington lawyer and Transportation Secretary under President Ford, who was appointed by the court to argue the position abandoned by the Justice Department. Not only was the IRS ban "wholly consistent with what Congress, the Executive and the courts had repeatedly declared," wrote Chief Justice Warren E. Burger in the unusually forceful opinion, but Congress had implicitly approved the policy by refusing 13 times since 1970 to overturn...
...middle-of-the-night meeting that produced a winner's move. The day Congress rejected President Reagan's dense-pack basing proposal for the MX missile and withheld production funds for the weapon, Republican Senators William Cohen of Maine and Warren Rudman of New Hampshire huddled with White House Aide Kenneth Duberstein in a nocturnal conclave in Vice President Bush's Capitol Hill office to figure out what to do next. The Senators urged the Administration to appoint a high-powered bipartisan study commission. "The MX will never fly if it is a Republican missile," explained Cohen...
Modern Times' golden age is America of the '20s. Prosperity and educational opportunity grew vigorously; art, music and literature made major breakthroughs. Much of this occurred under the unwatchful eyes of Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge, the last Presidents who were able to practice the preachment that government rules best by governing least...
Howard Sands advanced, Warren Grossman lost at the NCAA men's tennis tournament. Elizabeth Evans lost at the NCAA women's tennis tournament...