Word: bender
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...just crawled out from under a car (as he usually has). Unlike most auto designers, who work with clay mockups, Farina works with sheet aluminum, which he hammers into shape on wooden frames. He is affectionately called by Nash "the world's greatest fender bender." Farina lives more like a mechanic than a high-priced designer, sleeps in a room in which a bed is the only piece of furniture, a naked bulb the only light. He allows himself one luxury: a window air-conditioning unit...
...Dean Bender praised the AVC record and called the chapter "one of the most hopeful things to come out of the war," Dean Bender was right...
...financial question, however, was answered even before the final portion of the Bender Report had gone through the Faculty, partly through some budgetry juggling by Provost Buck but mostly through a timely grant from the Corporation. Reaching into its closely hoarded supply of unrestricted funds, the Corporation came up with one million dollars from the Allston Burr bequest, a gift better known in connection with Varsity Clubs. Not only is this ". . . support . . . encouraging," as Provost Buck put it, "to those of us concerned with maintaining the educational standards of Harvard College," but it proves anew the Corporation's flair...
...question of authority has also been settled. On February 12 the Faculty solved it by passing the final portion of the Bender Plan--the Gilmore Report--which stated among other points that "Senior Tutuors . . . shall be considered to have special responsibility for working out, with the departments, the organization of tutorial for sophomores on a residential basis" and added by way of explanation that while the departments would have the final word on junior tutorial, co-operation would be expected to continue...
There are rumors that the Senior Tutors have been selected already and that those chosen meet all the requirements of the job. We hope that this is true, for without qualified men no number of Corporation grants and no amount of jurisdiction for the Senior Tutors can make the Bender Plan a success...