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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year-old Buddhist monk's reception here was typical of the enthusiasm that followed him throughout the country. His address on "The Nature of Self" at Sanders Theater last Wednesday drew a crowd of over 1500, and the waiting list for tickets stretched into the hundreds. Over 200 graduate students and faculty members filled his seminar on "Buddhism and Society" given at the Divinity School the next day, and requests for interviews, audiences and autographs innundated him until he left Saturday afternoon for his home in exile in northern India...
...Diego, Carter drew a standing ovation from the AFL-CIO Building and Construction Trades unions with a view that seemed totally at odds with the Government's new credit-tightening policies. Despite predictions of a slump in home-building Carter declared: "In fighting inflation, we do not sacrifice construction jobs." Carter forecast that his windfall profits tax on crude oil will finance energy programs that will amount to "one of the biggest construction projects in world history-on a scale comparable to building our interstate highway system." Despite such rhetoric, his flat delivery was received mostly with polite applause...
Edison also saw inventions in a social and commercial context. He drew up lists of inventions that the world needed, or at least would buy, and set out to produce them. In the case of electric light, gas was already lighting homes, and electric arc lights were illuminating streets and stores-though much too brilliantly, and expensively, for general use. The need, Edison saw, was for some other form of electric illumination that would provide a steadier and, above all, cheaper glow than...
...produce it, he drew on the ideas of others, as he often did, though he gave them no credit. After experimenting with any number of materials, he hit on carbon. He tried to give the impression that he came up with that idea independently. In fact, says Biographer Conot, his laboratory notebooks prove that he read and underlined reports of the experiments of Joseph Swan in England. Swan had invented an electric bulb that used a fine carbon...
KRISTEN MERTZ and ABBY MEISELMAN. The long and short of it on the tennis team, the two sophomores drew the eighth seed in the doubles bracket, which "can only help," as Felske says. Meiselman, winner of the GBC's fourth singles title, is a scrappy baseline player. Mertz, another GBC champ who is undefeated this fall, will bring a strong serve and net game to the combo...