Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sees another obstacle to expanded computer use at Harvard--the "have" school's difficulty getting Federal funds. Mosteller attended a computer conference this weekend at the University of Maryland, where the main concern was the setting up of conferences to help specifically small schools gain access to computer networks...
...first period, Harvard spent virtually all its time circling the Princeton goal, with nothing to show for the effort. Not even three Tiger penalties proved enough help. Princeton's John Ritchie finally took matters into his own hands when he held Harvard's Terry Flaman with a good fake and then set up Jon Taylor, crossing in front of the nets for an easy score. Taylor's goal...
...pollution and city traffic headaches, last week endorsed a snappy 9-ft. "minicar" that would be about half as long as today's intermediate Chevrolets and Fords, create one-tenth of the pollution. Developed under a $299,995 HUD grant to the University of Pennsylvania with help from General Motors, the three-passenger, 100-mile-range "hybrid" could whiz along highways at 60 m.p.h. on a small gasoline engine, switch to a battery-powered electric motor for tooling around town...
...sale" to those who want on-the-spot discounts. On the other hand, Liz on the Rue de Rivoli, which counts on Americans for 90% of its business, will go on as before-though the firm is now providing airport-bound customers with buses staffed by hostesses who help with the confusion at customs. And at Dior last week, Director Jean-Marc Depoix comfortingly reassured his jet-set clientele that Dior's 15% discount would be granted as usual, added that "our foreign friends have been treated lightly enough as it is without adding this new insult...
...Baptist churches, little Kentucky Southern College (843 students) has gotten high marks in educational circles. Its finances are something else again. Cut off from federal grants by Kentucky Baptist Convention policy, K.S.C. started the current school year on the verge of bankruptcy. Even severing its Convention ties did not help; a federal grant could not be obtained in time. The only alternative to receivership, said President Rollin S. Burhans, was to agree to a proposed merger with the University of Louisville...