Word: conservationism
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Beinecke, who spent his first summer on Nantucket at the age of two, expects his commercial interests to turn a profit eventually-but money is not his main motive. He plans to turn his commercial holdings over to a foundation that will spend at least half the income restoring and...
The save-the-bay movement came to a head when a corporation called West-bay Community Associates announced plans to develop a residential-commercial-recreational complex along 27 miles of presently submerged bayshore south of San Francisco. Three days later, the state's Bay Conservation and Development Commission released...
A notable absentee was Paul Mellon, 61, only son of Uncle Andy, who is the single biggest shareholder in the Mellon enterprises - principally Alcoa, Carborundum Co., Koppers Co. and Gulf Oil. His duties as president of the National Gallery and director of the Bollingen Foundation (grants to scholars in the...
Even among the works suitable for exhibitions, only 2/3 to 3/4 are shown at any one time. Some objects are usually up on the fourth floor being cleaned and restored by the conservation department. Others are on loan to the Harvard Houses. In exchange for the privilege of borrowing from...
About 75 Harvard students spent their vacations cutting wood at Sandwich and Waltham to help ease the fuel shortage. Government experts spoke in Sanders Theatre on food conservation, and complaints about the meals served in Mem Hall and the Student Union lost much of their traditional passion.