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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Morison says Harvard's Overseers chose Cambridge as the home for their school in large part because of the "winning way" of the community's leader, Thomas Shepard. But six present-day civic leaders, including Cambridge Mayor Thomas W. Danehy sent a letter to the Board of Overseers this winter asking it to take some action to remedy about "the consistent poor judgment and insensitivity" of Harvard officials in their dealings with the city...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: A Hate-Hate Relationship | 6/7/1979 | See Source »

...change in attitude between the city and Harvard didn't occur overnight, but 1978-79, at least to some, was the nadir of their relationship. "I've never seen Harvard-Cambridge relations worse, longtime city manager James L. Sullivan said in early winter. "Nothing has happened since to change my mind," he added last week...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: A Hate-Hate Relationship | 6/7/1979 | See Source »

...years foreigners have regarded America (enviously, contemptuously) as a shocking wastrel, besotted with its own resources, lighting its cigars with $1,000 bills. In winter, visitors remark, the U.S. is always too warm indoors, and in summer always too cold; in a flawless little American parable, Richard Nixon used to turn up the White House air conditioning full blast and then start a cozy blaze in the fireplace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Weakness That Starts at Home | 6/4/1979 | See Source »

...through last winter, the nation heard rumblings about American "weakness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Weakness That Starts at Home | 6/4/1979 | See Source »

Cauthen went to England after a disastrous winter riding bad horses in California. "I love it here," he says. "Each track has got a history to it, and the people are crazy about racing." Later this year he plans to ride in Japan, and he talks of returning to the U.S. for a while and then going back to Europe, where the teen-ager from Kentucky already feels like a man of the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Success Abroad | 5/28/1979 | See Source »

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