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Water leaking through three floors flooded the Adams House kitchen, Robert T. Martin, dining hall manager, said yesterday, adding that he cancelled lunch so workmen could clean up the mess...
...125th of his birth, Brno has opened a yearlong Janacek celebration, beginning with 27 musical events in a two-week-long gala festival. Students, soldiers and scores of foreign scholars jammed six concert halls for the performances, including fully staged productions of all nine Janáček operas. Workmen bawled the great man's songs in local bars. Interpreters translated learned musical discourse in three languages (Czech, German and Russian). "If the old man ever scribbled graffiti on walls, we will probably hear that too," said one visitor...
Humming pipes and sweating workmen are the everyday reality of the tunnels. But the fantastic stories upperclassmen pass on to freshmen, like many Harvard legends, also have some basis in fact. Administrators never fled oncoming legions of protesters through the tunnels, but when students closed University Hall for a day last spring, the tunnels came into play. Dean Fox recalls that Harvard police used the tunnels to enter the building, while hordes of protesters sat unknowingly on the steps, blocking above ground entrances...
...Workmen resurfaced the tennis court, so there is good play when the cool comes in the evening. Before they went to work they took a boring of the old court, fearing that they would have to start with a new foundation. But what they found was three or four other surfaces laid down like geologic strata-late Cal Coolidge, early Franklin Roosevelt, middle...
...What the workmen found was not gold, but a treasure nonetheless. It has now been identified as a huge pre-Columbian bas-relief of the Aztec moon goddess Coyolxauhqui. Probably sculpted in the early 15th century, the circular stone, 3.3 meters (11 ft.) across and weighing some 20 tons, has relief images of the dismembered goddess's limbs, torso and head scattered all over its surface. The carnage depicts a well-known episode from Aztec mythology. When the mother of the gods was pregnant for the last time, so the story goes, her other offspring-the moon, planets...