Word: diebold
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard Summer School lecture series will begin today with a speech given by A. Richard Diebold, Jr., assistant professor of Social Anthropology, Diebold will speak on "The Relevance of Linguistic Analysis to Behavorial Science" at 4 p.m. in Burr Hall...
...says the creative prophet who dreamed up the scene. To Management Consultant John Diebold, the man who invented the very word "automation," the thorough automation of the nation's newspapers can be expected by 1970. Diebold bases his prediction on a year-long study he produced for Marshall Field's Chicago-based Field Enterprises. "Automation," says Diebold, "is going to change totally the way in which a newspaper is edited -the environment in which you work, the tools that you use, and the kind of editorial product that you produce...
...Today," says Diebold, "we have a technology that can brutally affect the whole guts of the publishing business. It is a very explosive situation for all connected with it." But publishers, who expected long, loud complaints from their unions, have not yet found massive resistance to their plans. The International Typographical Union has vowed only to force gradual rather than radical change, and to slow down the job-robbing effects of automation. Stereotypers have started signing contracts covering jobs on automated plate casters. In Toronto, newspaper owners have written a clause into their new contract with the Newspaper Guild providing...
Strange as it may seem, it is editorial apprehension over the coming change that runs highest, and one of Diebold's staff has been moved to deflate the alarmists: "Stories must still be told through the minds of men. They must be edited; copy must be proofread. It is only the tools with which the editor works that are going to change." Amen...
...Overseers approved these term appointments: Walter J. Kaiser '54, assistant professor of English and Comparative Literature; Arnold C. Cooper, assistant professor of Business Administration; Francois C. Vigier, assistant professor of Urban Design; Albert R. Diebold, Jr., assistant professor of Social Anthropology; Jerome H. Kiotz, professor of Statistics; and Gluck, assistant professor of Mathematics...