Word: hills
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...computer common room in Bell Laboratories' six-story brick quarters in Murray Hill, N.J., is strewn with a herd of toy sheep, an assortment of plastic ducks and a glass beaker that contains a Madagascar hissing cockroach. Walking along one of the facility's narrow, institutional-green corridors, Mathematician Ronald Graham effortlessly juggles six spinning white balls. Some days the balls are black. Not long ago, in a nearby office, a shimmying belly dancer tried to perk up a brooding scientist who was convinced that he had lost his zest for research. Since its founding on New Year...
...also have to be brilliant. Of the 20,000 people employed by Bell Labs in 19 facilities spread throughout the nation, 2,769 are Ph.D.s. "The brainpower around here is enormous," says Physicist Horst Stormer, referring to the Murray Hill branch, where a force of 3,200 does much of Bell's basic research. "This is like a university with a faculty of 500 physicists. If all of us took off and went to different universities, we wouldn't have the same impact." But clumped together, like uranium fuel rods in a reactor, the physicists and other Murray Hillers form...
...talked the blind man gave directions. Going down a dirt road, after a certain time had passed, if he did not feel the car rounding a curve, a wrong turn had been made--the same for crossing a railroad track, or a bridge, or descending a hill. His navigational skills were dead on the money...
...honorary members included Dyson, university chaplain Larry M. Hill, University Health Services physician Loring Conant, renowned-architect Gordan Gund, William D. Von Edges John J. Slocum, Professor of English and Folklore Joseph C. Harris, Master of Cabot House Myra Mayman, Frances Fergusson, Jeanne Leonard Wasserman '36, Judith Wilson Rogers '61, and Beverly Helbling Wood...
Switzler, a six-term lawmaker and vocal fiscal conservative, often criticizes Democrats on Beacon Hill for what he claims is their dishonest spending practices. He was drafted by a group of legislators to run for governor at the April 12 Republican State Convention...