Word: centrality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...core of Harvard's time-sharing computer network, has an unlisted phone number. Dialing that number rewards the caller with a unique, minor-key whistle, or else a busy signal, if 32 of some 125 SDS teletype units distributed around the University are already in conversation with the central computer...
...next step in the Cambridge Model Cities program will be the elections to the Model Cities Agency which will control the program. Last spring, the City Council guaranteed that residents of the Model Cities area--a 268-acre region just northeast of Central Square--would have a majority on the agency. The elections may be held before the first of the year...
Together with the two other islands of Nevis and St. Kitts, Anguilla was granted independence by Britain six months ago. But Anguilla seceded from the coalition, complaining that the central government on St. Kitts did not represent its interests...
...profit-sharing scheme, and in 1929 started paying "partnership benefits" to all. With no common shares issued, about half the profits are paid out annually in bonuses and nonvoting shares to em ployees, amounting to about 15% of their salaries. Through councils in each store and a company-wide central council, a dialogue is kept going between management and "partners." The company also spends some $500,000 a year on cultural subsidies (half-price tickets to Covent Garden and the Old Vic) and such perks as clubs (30, from gardening to judo) and low-cost holidays in the company-owned...
Maudie accepts the permanency of her alienation and returns home with the words: "Everyone is on their own." What sets Author Forster's trim, sparklingly clear little novel apart from other studies in loneliness is her attitude toward her central character. Though she is unsparing of Maudie, she also treats her with care and a humored understanding that demonstrates how it is-and why-that the loveless get by in the world...