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...main entrance to Harvard's labyrinthine network of steam tunnels, the myths seem credible enough. A discreet door at the corner of the Science Center belies the cavernous two-story room behind it: a blast of warm air and the loud rush of machinery engulf the visitor as the door swings shut on a familiar world that is light, breezy and boundless. Inside, the huge water tanks that dwarf green-uniformed workers and the computer control room could grace the set of any James Bond science fiction scenario...
News of the planned boycott at the law school provoked a flurry of passionate editorial response, cropping up in papers as far away as Honolulu. Far from quieting down with time, the controversy seemed to pick up steam as new columns and letters continued to appear more than one month after the story became public...
...collector alike; of cancer; in New York City. Beginning as a stockboy at 15, Tampone stayed on for more than 50 years encouraging inventors to bring even the most farfetched ideas to him. Among the once outrageous items his store popularized that have become staples of modern life: the steam iron, the portable radio, the Waring Blendor and the electric razor...
Perhaps the most glamorous small brewer is Anchor Brewing Co. of San Francisco, which was saved from bankruptcy in 1965 by Frederick Maytag, the great-grandson of the washing machine company founder. Maytag has developed a national following for his Anchor Steam Beer even though only 25,000 bbl. of the brew were produced last year. The beer, now available in 19 states, including Massachusetts and Georgia, is much praised by savants for its distinctively European taste, which imparts a somewhat heavier bouquet than is common among American brands...
...Core Curriculum is Harvard's answer for worries about the survival of liberal education. Both describe the withered remains of the General Education Curriculum, Harvard's last answer to worries about liberal education. One has jokes, the other statistics. Both help. And as they say in "Boats," full steam ahead, mate...