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Instructors at the Center reflect the diversity of their subjects. Some are professors, but not Harvard professors. (The University has a blanket rule against employees teaching elsewhere while at Harvard). Some are professionals in their fields, like the clinical psychologist who teaches "Psychology of the Personality." Other instructors are experienced amateurs, like some of the craft teachers...
...wants the element of struggle in life." What is life's main purpose? "Before you go to sleep at night, you say, 'I haven't got it yet. I haven't got it yet . . .' Take the man who invented the thermostat blanket. I hope he didn't say to himself, 'Now I'll go to Florida and sit around...
...catch up, but with no success, and as they sprinted down Commonwealth Ave., Viskari pulled away, turned into Exeter St. and loped to the finish line two blocks away. Mayor John B. Hynes clapped the laurel wreath on his head and adoring Finnish-Americans enshrouded him in a blanket. Unsure of Viskari's English, an admirer shouted: "Record! Record! Understand?" Viskari grinned as well as he could. His time: 2 hr. 14 min. 14 sec., fastest marathon ever run. Kelley, 125 yards back at the finish, crossed 19 seconds later, also breaking the old record...
...economic maturity of U.S. industry. Community and employee relations are as important a factor in modern management as raw materials, markets and transportation. Most companies today bend over backward to be good neighbors in their communities. Industry's new attitude to community relations was simply defined by Troy Blanket Mills' Vice President E. J. Russell, whose company has been the only industry in Troy, N.H. for 75 years. Said he: "People like to be treated like people...
...they had any answer to the opposition's arguments, no Liberals stirred to present them. Instead of debating details, Liberal speakers rose one after the other to deliver blanket endorsements of the budget. "This is a good budget," said Liberal Irvin Studer, in a speech that was typical of the Liberal line in the debate. "This government has proved in the past, in the present, and will in the future, that there is no end to good government...