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FROM the early days of the Republic, when Thomas Jefferson backed Inventor Eli Whitney's design for mass-produced muskets with interchangeable parts, public support for technological progress has been an American tradition. Out of this tradition has grown an obsession with speed, a consequence of the nation's great distances and the rush to cover them quickly, producing what Historian Daniel J. Boorstin calls "a technology of haste" that dates back to the pioneering steamboats of nearly two centuries ago. Add to those themes the national desire to win, to be first. A natural consequence...
What do TV Host David Susskind, Commentary Magazine Editor Norman Podhoretz, Actor Eli Wallach, Critic Alfred Kazin, Cartoonist Jules Feiffer, and a covey of New York's richest lawyers and brokers have in common? For one thing, they all spend as much as $3,000 a year to send their children to Manhattan's private Dalton School. For another, they have lately turned their intellectual ferocity to intramural school brawling...
According to Eli Traum, professor of Construction and director of Technology Studies, the building serves about 100 students and houses research projects of "several dozen graduate students...
...University statement issued yesterday said that the two classes scheduled to meet in the building on Monday, professor Eli Traum's "Structural Design" and lecturer Fred Moavenzadeh's "Material Technology," will temporarily meet elsewhere...
...Yale left Cambridge with only a 1-1 record for the day since the Crimson freshmen had upset a superior Eli squad, 48-45, earlier in the afternoon. In that meet Fred Mitchell smashed two Harvard records and helped the freestyle relay team set another in winning the event and the meet...