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...Freshman Dean's Office this week to acquaint Harvard's greenest students with their urban surroundings. After a Sunday night lecture about how to look at a city and what to take advantage of, about 500 freshmen boarded boats the next day for a tour of Boston Harbor and nearby Georges Island, according to Associate Dean of Freshmen W.C. Burriss Young...
...raising the entire Titanic would be both technologically and financially unthinkable. Yet at least one salvage expert may be ready to give it a try. He is Britain's John Pierce, who designed an array of inflatable canvas bags to lift the Rainbow Warrior from the bottom of Auckland harbor in New Zealand after it had been sunk by a terrorist bomb. According to accounts in the British press, Pierce has suggested a similar approach for the Titanic. But raising the 418-ton Greenpeace ship from a shallow harbor is one thing, rescuing the 46,328-ton Titanic from...
...Grant sat on the porch and marched armies across his memory. He called them up through cocaine and morphine, through the pain in his throat, and into a perfect clarity of prose. He fought the war minutely all over again: Shiloh and Vicksburg, the slaughters of the Wilderness, Cold Harbor, where men were so sure of death that they pinned their names and addresses on their jackets for easy identification when they fell. And at last, the mythy set piece of Appomattox, where Lee came as the elegant last cavalier, and Grant, a shabby cigar stub of a man, appeared...
...Boston Lob-sters. Professional team tennis. Throw'em back in the Harbor...
...affaire Greenpeace answered some questions but left others as tantalizingly mysterious as ever. All through the summer, Paris papers and French politicians had speculated endlessly about whether the government was responsible for the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior, the flagship of the environmental group Greenpeace, in Auckland harbor in New Zealand on July 10. Tricot's conclusion: "Everything I have seen and heard gives me the certitude that at the government level there was no decision aimed at damaging the Rainbow Warrior...