Word: bern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Former residents generally shake their heads philosophically when asked about the "new Pennypacker." Samuel A. Bern '79, who last year fled the dorm to the co-ed environment of South House, says his decision would probably have been different this year. "The facilities weren't so bad," he says, and if there had been women around to "make the place seem less like a locker room," he would have stayed at Pennypacker instead of transferring...
Noel D. Hollis New Bern...
...less than foolproof. Static caused by atmospheric conditions and quirky weather has on occasion rendered it inoperable. Fortunately, neither superpower had any urgent messages to transmit during these periods of non-function. Still, it is chilling to contemplate the future of mankind turning on weather conditions between Moscow and Bern, Switzerland, or on a flare-up of sunspots...
This potentially calamitous defect is now being remedied. The Bern relay station will soon be eliminated. To replace it, the system will rely on straight line-of-sight radio signals sent through communications satellites that the U.S. and the Soviet Union have hurled into orbit. The new switching and linking system should be virtually fail-safe. If diplomacy could be similarly fine-tuned, there would probably be no need for a hot line in the first place...
...Bern Judge Jürg Sollberger has now ruled that the pamphlet's title was in fact defamatory, but he ordered the 13 people found guilty to pay only token fines: $120 each plus an additional $160 toward Nestlé's legal expenses. The judge also granted the Third World group a moral victory by commenting that Nestlé "must modify its publicity methods fundamentally." The defendants will appeal. Said one Nestlé spokesman: "Our marketing techniques are evolving all the time...