Word: storms
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...This story is even bigger than that," the voice persisted. "Harvard senior Bobby Hackett swam up a storm last weekend at the Seventeen Swim Meet of Champions in Mission Viejo, Calif...
...ignited the resentment that had been smoldering in some of the 19,000 Cuban refugees from Castro awaiting relocation in the U.S. A force of 500 Cubans marched out through the front gate before being rounded up by harassed soldiers and police. That night 200 Cubans tried to storm the gates. Repelled, they staged a full-scale riot and set mess halls and supply rooms ablaze. Police and soldiers broke up the rampage with tear gas, but small mobs roamed the base starting more fires and demanding freedom...
...knew what the real plot was." And so in the 1938 campaign, embattled opponents of Plan E termed it the work of "Harvard communists," and the city council voted to symbolically "secede" from Harvard should the law pass. That idea appealed to the Harvard Lampoon, whose members dressed in storm trooper outfits and marched down Massachusetts Avenue toward the city Hall to demand that they too be made a separate state. Sutton records that Councilor Michael (Mickey the Dude) Sullivan was descending the steps as the Poonies arrived. He tried to stop the parade, and fell to the ground...
...University labor scene the last two springs has not exactly been laced with drama. At this point last year, however, the quiet in Harvard's relations with its non-teaching employees seemed a calm before the storm. As students returned to Cambridge to begin the academic year, the office of the Associate General Counsel faced the not too tantalizing task of reaching agreements with all six Harvard unions whose contracts expired in the coming seven months...
...Federal Reserve responded last week to the economic storm clouds by beginning to dismantle the credit restrictions it had imposed only two months ago. This led to expectations that interest rates will continue dropping in the coming weeks. One encouraging omen was that inflation is perhaps beginning to abate at last. Consumer prices during the month of April rose at an annual rate of only 11.4%, down from the first quarter's horrifying 18.1% yearly level...