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...Advent Corporation, a nationally-known manufacturer of loudspeakers and other electronic equipment, will close its Cambridge headquarters and plant facilities on Feb. 15 when it shifts its operations to New Hampshire...
...corporation, which grossed $35 million last year, is leaving primarily for economic reasons," Peter Sprague, president of Advent, said yesterday. Advent's plant now comprises eight separate buildings in the Cambridge area which are "old, dilapidated and difficult to operate," Sprague said...
Peking last week celebrated the advent of Sino-American relations with soda pop, champagne toasts, demands for free speech and freer sex, and a binge of disco dancing-most of which, as the Chinese have been quick to learn, goes better with Coke. Thanks to the time difference between the capitals of the two nations, Peking got a 13-hour head start on normalization over Washington. Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing launched the New Year's Day occasion with a solemn call for world peace. As fireworks exploded outside the U.S. liaison office in Peking, Teng raised...
Pilobolus. It's the name of a barnyard fungus that shoots its ripe spoors to astonishing distances. It's also the name of what may be the most extraordinary innovation in theatrical choreography since the advent of modern dance. And now, it's the title of a book of photographs that jostle the sight like a somersault...
...breathtakingly sudden appearance of Robert Brustein, dean of the Yale School of Drama, as the potential successor to Robert Chapman as director of the Loeb, has been heralded in almost apocalyptic terms. The Crimson editorial on "The Brustein Affair" suggested that, with the advent of Brustein, the "Loeb blahs of the past few decades" were at last to be eradicated, that academic and professional drama throughout the Boston area would be revitalised...