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...hospitals, a reform school, Newton High School, and a Polaroid-Land factory. In addition, they met with Dean McGeorge Bundy to discuss American-Soviet student exchange programs, attended a closed luncheon in Quincy House, and strolled through Widener Library; the Fogg, Busch-Reisinger, and Peabody Museums; and the Russian Research Center.The delegates noticed large differences between life in the U.S. and the USSR.“The tempo in the United States is very fast,” delegation leader Nikolai Voshchinin said at a news conference.Although U.S.-Soviet relations were the talk of the town, the delegates, who arrived...
...Cambridge had been in high demand, so much so that even as Harvard and the MTA negotiated, a bill came before the Massachussetts state legislature proposing the construction of a 40-acre platform over the Charles River Basin near MIT, which would provide space for “apartments, research firms, or other industrial buildings”—and would expand the tax base for the City.The land’s desirability meant that Cambridge real estate tended to carry a hefty price tag. In 1959, Harvard offered to pay around $4 million, or the equivalent...
...Cuban Studies Program faces are great, but they are far from being deterrents for academic exchange. “Harvard never ‘embargoed’ Cuban scholars nor did Harvard seek to stand in the way of any member of our community studying or engaging in research in Cuba. The U.S. government, especially over the past five years, did both,” Jorge I. Dominguez, Vice Provost for International Affairs, wrote in an email. “Visas for Cuban scholars to visit the U.S. for short periods were characteristically denied; U.S. barriers to student research...
...housed in Thayer on the fifth floor. A friendship soon blossomed out of their shared love of playing pranks. But it was not until their sophomore year that the couple began dating. By the following summer—when they were both participating in the Harvard College Program for Research in Science and Engineering—they were discussing marriage. Lopez asked DeCoste-Lopez to marry him when she came to visit him during intersession the next year. The two traveled to San Francisco where Lopez planned to propose at Ocean Beach near Golden Gate Park. When they arrived, DeCoste...
...they all seem very clever over here, but I subsequently realized that it was a very special time,” Ostriker said.From Cambridge he moved to Princeton University, where he spent 16 years as the chairman of the Department of Astrophysical Sciences. Ostriker is particularly noted for his research on dark matter, the hypothetical matter whose presence can be inferred from gravitational effects on visible matter.Ostriker’s daughter remembered that her father was always very excited about his work and said that he loved working with students.During the years Ostriker served as Princeton?...