Word: harper
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Though allied intelligence had predicted the attack, the embassy's defense consisted of only five U.S. military guards- just one more than normal. They fought back so fiercely that only their courage denied the enemy complete success. Sergeant Ronald W Harper, 20, a Marine guard, managed to heave shut the embassy's massive teakwood front doors just seconds before the guerrillas battered at them with rockets and machine guns, thus denying the V.C. entry to the main building...
...educators and trained observers who spent 2,000 hours examining 15 representative high schools and interviewing teachers, principals and students. Carnegie President Ernest Boyer, former U.S. Commissioner of Education under President Jimmy Carter, collected their journals and wrote the final account, which is being published this month by Harper & Row. Says Boyer: "This report on the American high school begins with the conviction that the time for renewing education has arrived. If we do not seize this special moment, we will fail the coming generation and the nation...
...Harper & Row; 361 pages...
...Harper & Row; 215 pages...
...analysis may be skewed, but his timing is sound. Publishers are increasingly receptive to computer-related books, and they are paying especially high premiums for critiques of the programs that turn computers into word processors, financial analyzers, list managers, electronic communicators, music synthesizers and video-game machines. Harper & Row has advanced $600,000 to the editors of InfoWorld, a weekly computer magazine, for a six-volume series of software and hardware reviews, and Simon & Schuster paid the same amount for a ten-volume series by the staff of PC World, a monthly magazine devoted to the IBM Personal Computer...