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...building, which is over 150 years old, is in dilapidated condition. There are open steam pipes and wires and only primitive plumbing and heating facilities...
...have been officially recognized. And in the recent construction of a reactor in Gravel Neck, Virginia, the welding superintendent admitted that as many as 5000 welds in vital parts of the structure could be defective. A cooling water failure might precipitate a "runaway" which could cause a high-power steam explosion within one-hundredth of a second. Vernon's emergency cooling system takes from three to ten seconds to become effectively operational...
Harvard officials said Saturday that the steam pipes are old and might damage anyone approaching them too closely. But one woman said. "The problems of heat and electricity are not insurmountable. If it were that dangerous, Harvard would not have held classes here. Harvard has an obligation to the women of this community to restore the heat and donate the building for a women's center...
DONALD Sutherland's twenty-ninth floor suite at the Sheraton Boston Hotel feels like a hothouse-its windows are fogged up with steam and the air inside is heavy and stale. Half empty wine glasses are scattered about the plastic and gold, French streamlined tables, and a portable cart, crowded with dirty dishes and the remains of a lunch, dominates the center of the room. It is four o'clock on a February afternoon...
...music, and Whitman to poetry. He must understand such words as debutante and modiste, know that Dali is a painter and verity is the opposite of myth. Only after having established such credentials is a man judged to be qualified under the union rules to become an apprentice steam fitter in New York. In the past, the test has weeded out 66% of the nonwhite applicants and only 18% of the whites-a fairly effective method, according to charges filed last week by the New York State attorney general's office, of preserving the union's whiteness...