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...also borrowed from the Renaissance by erecting one dramatic vertical building to offset the massive horizontal thrust of the plan. But in raising the 28-story administration building as a sort of campanile, he also made it a showcase for structural technology. Since Netsch could take advantage of the decreasing loads the columns had to bear as the building rose, he was able to widen the floors toward the top without thickening the supports...
...More Credit. As consumer spending continues into 1966, only two small dim spots concern merchants. One is the effect of this month's $5.5 billion rise in social security taxes for medicare (offset in part by another $1.6 billion excise-tax reduction). The other is a rise in prices-generally about 3% -that will be most noticeable on such items as jewelry, furs and leather goods; last week higher costs of goods and services pushed the consumer price index to a new high of 110.6. With consumers both affluent and confident, even these rises are likely to be offset...
First, the problem of space: Lamont seats only 1200 and is often overcrowded even without opening its doors to 1200 Cliffies. Daniel C. Goldfarb Jr. '66, chairman of the HUC, doubts that enough Harvard students would use the new Radcliffe Library to offset the overcrowding...
Thus, gas propels Bulge toward the grandiose tank battle that eventually spells German defeat, but all the rest of the picture seems to run on sheer gall. On the questionable assumption that ferocious truth must be offset by comedy relief, there is a black-marketeering U.S. sergeant (Telly Savalas) who blunders into heroic deeds. Even the massacre of 125 G.I. prisoners at Malmédy has a silver lining, since it turns simpering Lieut. James MacArthur into a fit soldier...
There is no evidence that even the inducement of a fellowship at the new center and the negligible salary increases announced last week will offset the lucrative salaries, light teaching loads, and promise of earlier tenure appointments offered to Harvard junior faculty members by other universities. Most young instructors leave Harvard because staying is pointless--and that is unchanged by the Warren Center. Harvard can be a dead end for an aspiring academician--there are already just too many good people competing for two few senior posts. Increasing the number of non-tenured faculty members only means there will...