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When Mayor Edward A. Crane '35 asked about a police disciplinary action three years ago, Maher retorted, "You're small. You're small. You gave him 50 hours of extra duty for reading a newspaper, which you do in your office every...
...other Senior Fellows are Walter Jackson Bate '39, Lowell Professor of the Humanities, Crane Brinton '19, McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History, Paul M. Doty, professor of Chemistry, Wassily W. Leontief, Henry Leo Professor of Economics, Harry Levis '33, Babbitt Professor of Comparative Literature, physicist Edward M. Purcell, Gade University Professor, and Willard Van Orman Quine, Pierce Professor of Philosophy...
...main advantages to builders go far beyond price. As a building rises, the tower crane hoists itself from floor to floor by means of built-in hydraulic jacks. It supports itself on the building's side or on a tower that runs up inside what will later become an elevator shaft. Its counterbalanced boom can deftly pinpoint a load anywhere on the construction floor, whereas crawlers, operating from street level, can only inch a load to the edge of the floor. And the tower's heights are unlimited, while the crawler can rise no higher than 35 stories...
Lindenkranar, which has plants in Sweden and licensees in England and Finland, manufactures 500 cranes a year, exports them to 17 countries and has annual sales of $5,000,000. Bigger Liebherr, with crane sales of $20 million, turns out 2,000 cranes annually, has plants in Austria, France, Ireland and South Africa in addition to seven in Germany. Both companies expect business to rise handsomely as builders around the world discover the benefits of tower cranes. "The sky's the limit," says Lindenkranar President Elis Linden, discussing the height at which his products can work-but also describing...
...years of bird watching discovered many principles of avian psychology (birds are shocked to see themselves in mirrors, sometimes suffer from inferiority complexes), was the first to raise the ruffed grouse in captivity, locate the nesting place of the bristle-thighed curlew, record successfully the call of the whooping crane; of a heart attack; in Ithaca...