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...young campaign workers oversaw a house-by-house survey that reached 75% of the Democratic voters in his district that includes liberal Boston suburbs and rural upstate towns. The canvassers fed the householders' views on the issues into computers, then followed up with mailings. When an election-day rainstorm held the vote down, Drinan's staff assembled 250 student volunteers in an hour's time and put them to work driving the computer-identified faithful to the polls...
...Baruch, meeting him in 1942 at Washington's Carlton Hotel to begin work on a synthetic-rubber study, surveyed Conant's fox face and spartan, wire-rimmed glasses and instantly announced: "Well, you're not much to look at-that's certain." When an unexpected rainstorm drenched the large and eminent audience at Harvard's tercentenary celebration in 1936, Yale's President James Rowland Angell found the explanation: "This is Conant's way of soaking the rich...
Conditions resulting from poor maintenance have been treacherous. During a rainstorm last November, leaking water dripped onto electric wires and caused a fire in a building which houses seven adults and eleven children. In another apartment, rented by a 79-year-old man and his wife, one radiator leaks and another has not worked, he said, "for a couple of years." In a third building, many of whose apartments tenants claim Harvard has sought to vacate rather than fix a broken boiler, one woman lived without heat for three months last fall. Tenants have complained about many other maintenance problems...
Some of the demonstrators said that, during a recent rainstorm, leaking water dripped onto electric wires and caused a fire in a building at 52 Francis St. which houses 7 adults and 11 children...
...troops would be withdrawn this summer. Last week they flew in nine C-141 StarLifter transports to McChord Air Force Base in Washington. As bystanders clapped and called out "Thank you! Thank you!" they paraded proudly through downtown Seattle, their jungle green battledress stained dark by a pelting rainstorm. Said one exuberant captain: "We would have marched in snow...