Word: desk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ever growing, H.S.A. now handles beer mugs, college banners, birthday cakes, desk blotters, charter flights to Europe, three linen services, magazine and newspaper subscriptions, refrigerators, class rings, stationery, reserve book returns, long-distance furniture moving, and, of course, "milk, doughnuts and sandwiches." It publishes a slick paper guide for summer school students, and in termtime, the weekly Student Calendar. It runs a grill in the Union and in Eliot House; it sells hot-dogs in the stadium...
...July 1, Dean Bender will clean out his desk and, after seven years on the job, leave the Office of Admission and Financial Aid, to become associate director of a Boston Foundation...
...Curtice, then G.M.'s executive vice president, sent a hurry call to Cole, told him of his promotion to chief engineer of Chevy. Startled, Cole asked: "How soon do you want me to wrap things up in Cleveland?" Replied Red Curtice: "Just leave your keys on my desk...
...grapefruit-sized eightball rests on the president's desk. Perhaps no other symbol could as well represent six years of trials and tribulations for Dr. J. Paul Mather, president of the University of Massachusetts and center of one of the greatest educational controversies in the history of this state. During the six years of his fight to achieve relative independence from the state governmental bureaucracy his black hair has turned almost white and his forehead became crossed with lines of worry; aged 44, Mather looks closer...
Copying Machine. A desk-size machine that reproduces documents on ordinary instead of specially treated paper will be introduced by Haloid Xerox, Inc. early next year. Fixing dry ink permanently into paper, the Xerox 914 turns out reproductions up to 9 by 14 in. at the rate of six a minute. Rent: $95 a month...