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...opening will make Harvard one of the last law schools in the country to start a chapter of Phi Alpha Delta (PAD), the nation's second largest legal association--second only to the American Bar Association...
...PAD offers an international placement service and numerous programs including a federally-funded juvenile justice program through which law students teach primary and secondary school students about...
Corliss C. Stone, president of the chapter and a third year law student, said that the charter members saw PAD's "impressive" programs as useful for students' future careers...
...fraternity is open to "all who are interested and academically qualified," Clark said, adding that the fraternity has accepted Blacks since 1948 and women since 1971 when PAD merged with Phi Delta Delta, the national law sorority...
...while it looked like the second flight might never get off the pad. Miscalculations and errors caused repeated delays. In the first flight an unexpectedly powerful shock wave from the initial blast of the shuttle's solid-fuel rockets caused the control flaps on the trailing edge of Columbia's delta wings to flutter so wildly that they approached the breaking point. The shock also bent and buckled several of the metal trusses linking Columbia to its big external fuel tank. To prevent a recurrence of this near disaster, engineers had to undertake a complete overhaul...