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Work has begun in earnest on the Harvard Mountaineering Club's new is in Tuckerman Ravine on Mt. Washington. The cabin, which will replace the rather delapidated Boot Spur cabin club now operates, is expected to be shed in time for climbing activities next year...
...curiosity got the better of her usually flawless taste when she chose to sing a version of Mozart's Voi che sapete "with embellishments noted down at a performance in Vienna at which Mozart was present." As the soprano explained, such frills and furbelows were usually improvised on the spur of the moment and then forgotten; this version of the aria, however, lay hidden in a German castle until it was discovered three years...
...most ambitious message on transportation that any President has addressed to Congress, Kennedy proposed an entire complex of fresh laws to replace "a chaotic patchwork of inconsistent and often obsolete legislation." The President sought to spur the U.S. Government into a coherent and long-overdue adjustment to the changing economic facts of life in the transportation business...
...series under way with the financial backing of Columbia Associates, an organization of Columbia College well-wishers that he heads. The purpose of the programs, says Erpf, is to permit "adult people in this time of trouble and tensions to have not only the solace of entertainment but the spur of education." By no means inciden tally, the TV series also may well turn a profit for Columbia Associates...
...they will build the biggest line of them all: a yard-wide pipe that, when it is completed late next year, will pump gasoline, kerosene, furnace oil and diesel fuel over 1,600 miles from Houston to New York's Staten Island and to 1,000 miles of spur lines in between. The $350 million pipe, biggest privately financed construction job in history, will be bankrolled by nine oil majors. They are: American Oil, Cities Service, Continental, Gulf, Phillips, Pure Oil, Sinclair, Socony Mobil and Texaco...