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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...There is as much radioactivity in a pound of butter as there is in one of our scintillator counting vials," a representative of MIT told the council. "These wastes are packed in little bitty glass jars," he added...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Councilors, University Officials, Santa Discuss Radioactive Waste Questions | 11/20/1979 | See Source »

Privately, some hospital officers concede that they would be relieved by the Shah's departure. Housed in a $900-a-day suite on the 17th floor of the hospital's Baker Pavilion, and protected by one-way glass doors and his own armed guards, the Shah is secure. But hospital personnel will be uneasy as long as he stays. TIME has learned that last week a white-robed black man who claimed to be a Muslim slipped into the medical center's library and threatened three doctors with a samurai sword before he was disarmed by police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Patient on Floor 17 | 11/19/1979 | See Source »

...Douglas MacArthur told a congressional investigating committee in 1901 that while being hazed as a cadet at West Point, he was forced to do deep-knee bends over broken glass until he fainted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Dating at West Point | 11/19/1979 | See Source »

...plain north of Parma stands a shining monument to the Harvard Business School. The largest pasta factory in Italy, it now produces more than a fifth of all the spaghetti eaten here. It is American owned and run according to all the newest methods. All steel and glass, humming machinery, it is a symbol of the new Italy, the post-war industrial revolution that has transformed a rural agricultural-based economy into a modern industrial state. Northern Italians have watched that transformation: the grandparents belong to a rural world, a preindustrial way of life that had continued almost unchanged...

Author: By Philip Swan, | Title: The Sad State of Arts at Harvard | 11/15/1979 | See Source »

...Christian burial of Mussolini's remains and the return of many former possessions. She also ran a restaurant-inn for the past 15 years. Said she: "With all the troubles in my life, if I couldn't make a plate of tortellini or bring somebody a glass of wine, I'd have jumped out the window long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 12, 1979 | 11/12/1979 | See Source »

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