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...University is trying to raise $250 million by October of 1984. Less than two years into the five-year capital fund drive, the Harvard Campaign has already coaxed $153.6 million from foundations, corporations and--primarily--individuals. "This campaign is extremely successful. We're underway. We have a head of steam," enthuses Michael T. Bolan, the University's director of planned giving...
According to your story "A Watt That Produces Steam" [Aug. 3], White House aides believe that James Watt's difficulties "stem more from style than substance." How would a mere change of style help protect our environment from Watt's narrow, future-be-damned attitude...
...reactor components were slackly written, lacking even technical specifications. Said Investigator A. Ernest Fitzgerald of one contractor's agreements: "I think it was very decent of Westinghouse to do any work, because it is not clear they have to do anything at all under these contracts." A steam generator priced at $5 million in 1975 actually cost the Government $71 million. The report found evidence of both bribery and fraud by some contractors. A consortium of 753 private utilities agreed in 1973 to put up more than a third of the capital for Clinch River. Thanks to the cost...
...fogs-they were, of all unlikely things, political images: fat Ku Kluxers riding around in cars, nooses, stubbled faces in claustrophobic, smoke-filled rooms. For several years before that, not much had been seen of Guston's work; he was thought to have run out of steam, and so his new work was treated as a gesture of desperation, an aesthete's efforts to look like a stumblebum. If anyone had suggested in those days that the figurative Gustons would exert a pervasive influence on American art ten years later, the idea would have seemed incredible...
...rush to beat inflation by buying such tangible goods as fine art, jewelry and even old art nouveau advertising posters, which picked up steam about two years ago when inflation began roaring ever higher, now appears to be slowing...