Word: windowless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chosen role in that troubled country. In the spirit of their closedminded and paternalistic attitude toward those--both here at Harvard and in South Africa--who raise their voices against racist policies that University investments bolster, the seven white businessmen of the Harvard Corporation have built themselves a comfortable, windowless world. Perhaps as they see the shantytown on their bi-weekly visits to the campus, the members of the Corporation will recognize their complicity in the injustice in South Africa...
...look at the battle-ready Sixth Fleet, Rome Correspondent Sam Allis visited the U.S. carrier Saratoga earlier in March. There, he was catapulted into the sky, with his back facing forward, in a windowless section of a transport plane. "The G forces as we shot off the deck rendered us journalists, for once, helpless, very humble people," says Allis. "As for landing, I found it rather comforting not to see just how small the flight deck looked from...
Bizarre and illogical even by terrorist standards, the hijack drama suddenly came into focus in Washington on Monday evening. About four hours earlier, the Palestinian terrorists had announced their piracy over ship-to- shore radio. By 6 p.m. Monday, a State Department task force had convened in a windowless suite of seventh-floor offices at Foggy Bottom. Information was scanty, even for President Reagan and National Security Adviser Robert ("Bud") McFarlane, who consulted twice on Monday night. Ironically, Secretary of State Shultz was aboard a ship himself: on a Potomac River barge where he was entertaining Singapore's visiting Prime...
...emanating from quake-caused fires first darkened the morning sky, then dissipated. By early afternoon an eerie silence, broken only by the wailing sirens of emergency vehicles, had settled over the normally boisterous city. The sun again broke through, casting a pink glow on crumbled buildings, piles of debris, windowless facades. Outside the remaining half of an apartment building on Calle Atenas, a man in a beige suit sat motionless, as though any shift of his body might dislodge more of the structure. "Please get my daughter, please get la chiquita," he whispered to the rescuers. The girl...
...Into the windowless antechamber walks Baird Professor of Science Dudley R. Herschbach, just finished with his early morning freshman Chemistry 7 lecture. Hershbach, Harvard's most active professor in the drive to "humanize" science curricula, throws a pointed question at the unsuspecting Rosovsky...