Word: director
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Often as not, the men who hold the stars in their places are Jon Bell, an intern studying to be a planetarium director, and Joe Doti, engineer. Except for the subdued glow from green and red console lights, they work in darkness. "It only takes a few weeks to learn how to operate, but you must know the basics of astronomy," says Bell. He is whispering as the display goes on, and his tone suggests an acolyte trying not to disturb a service. Every time he does a show, he admits, he feels a shiver synapsing down his spine...
ALICE MITCHELL RIVLIN, 47, since 1975 has been director of the Congressional Budget Office, which was created that year to give objective advice to Congressmen on the cost and effectiveness of various Government programs. Under Rivlin the CBO has annoyed Republicans by reporting that President Ford's spending budget was inadequate for the needs of the economy and nettled Democrats by branding the Carter Administration's estimates of what the energy program would accomplish "overly optimistic...
ISABEL V. SAWHILL, 41, is director of the National Commission for Manpower Policy, which advises Congress and the President on employment issues (operators who answer the commission's phones now say, "National Commission for Employment Policy," though Sawhill has not yet been able to make an official change from the rather sexist old name). A native of Washington, D.C., Sawhill received her economics doctorate from New York University, and remembers that she was often the only woman in her classes. She soon found that the best opportunity for advancement was in Government; and, since the late...
Harvard will probably spend between $250,000 and $500,000 to more than double its computing facilities and the number of its terminals, Lewis A. Laws, associate director of the Science Center, said yesterday...
...Hearst Foundation, created in 1951 by newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst, has had an "on-going interest in research on children's diseases" and has given grants to Harvard researchers in the past, Robert M. Frehse, managing director of the foundation, said yesterday...