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...Support arrangements are under constant discussion, and the details are not set yet," said Franklin Steen, director of FAS Computer Services...
Arts and Sciences Computer Services Director Franklin M. Steen said he believes the thief or thieves entered the offices from the library through an emergency door which connects the two areas. Recent construction extended the offices into space previously occupied by the library...
...great postwar hedgehog, and candidates ever since have of necessity sought that same aura. George Bush was as poor at managing "the vision thing" as Dole. In this presidential parlor game, George Washington was a hedgehog, John Adams a fox. Abraham Lincoln was a hedgehog, Harry Truman a fox. Franklin D. Roosevelt was a fox who grew into a supreme hedgehog. Richard Nixon lost as a fox in 1960 but won as a hedgehog in 1968. National crises both demand and create hedgehogs, and hedgehogs go down in history as the great Presidents. And in this era of slogans...
...great find is Hell-Bent for Election, a 13-minute cartoon sponsored by the United Auto Workers to promote Franklin Roosevelt's 1944 re-re-re-election. Joe, a burly blond workingman, must assure that the Win the War Special (a high-speed train with F.D.R.'s smiling profile on the engine) gets to Washington ahead of the G.O.P.'s 1929 Defeatist Limited. Directed by the immortal Chuck Jones, with music by Earl Robinson and E.Y. Harburg, Hell-Bent for Election is visually imaginative and giddily unfair (for a moment the Republican villain metamorphoses into Hitler). It anchors a smart...
Director of FAS Computer Services Franklin M. Steen said the problems arose after technicians completed a system upgrade over the summer in response to numerous complaints about the system's speed last year...