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...September of 1972 a gift of $1 million from Mitsubishi Industries to the Law School established a chair in Japanese legal studies with an endowed professorship. One year later, the Japan Foundation--an organization sponsored by the Japanese government--announced it would donate $10 million to American universities, one-tenth of which was presented to Harvard by Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka on January 16, 1974, Toyota joined with Nissan Motor Co. Ltd.--the manufacturer of Datsun cars and trucks--in giving the institute an additional million dollars aimed at construction of a new building near the Yenching Library. This...
...shadow, gray overlapping black, so that each detail of form is both implicit and simultaneously present, is astounding. The difference of quality be tween an Adams print and one made by a studio from an Adams negative is just as evident as the difference between a first and a tenth edition of an etching. It is the responsiveness of his printing, combined with his long wait at the view finder, that gives Adams' handmade landscapes their unique and poetic clarity. If he is an anachronism, as some crit ics claim, Adams remains the most commanding anachronism in modern camerawork...
...American League. When the 1973 regular season ended, Jackson led his league in five offensive categories: home runs (32), RBls (117), runs scored (99), game-winning hits (18) and "slugging percentage" -the production of extra-base hits (.531). He also managed to hit a very respectable .293, the tenth best A.L. average. On the base paths he is a daring thief, diving into bases to stretch singles to doubles or doubles to triples...
Angell took firsts in four of her ten races to take A division honors, while Roehm had seven firsts, two seconds and a fourth on the Charles. Both skippers started out poorly, allowing MIT to gain an early lead that the Engineers held through the tenth race...
...UMass touched Pura for two runs in the eighth and four in the ninth on Pete Backstrom's double and the four-bagger by Mundalto. With one out in the tenth and the ducks on the pond for the Minutemen, pinch designated hitter Oscar Fontaine rapped a single to hand Pura the loss...