Word: hub
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...business hungering for specialized talent, such top scholars as New York University Economist Marcus Nadler earn up to $300 a day as consultants to management. University of Pittsburgh Chancellor Edward H. Litchfield is also chairman of Smith-Corona Marchant and a director of Studebaker and Avco Corp. The hub of this extracurricular activity is Boston, where some 1,000 space-age companies have grown up since World War II, most of them started there to exploit readily available brain power and many of them founded by Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard theorists themselves...
...Miles to Anywhere. Texas A. & M. is the hub of a 24,801-acre statewide "college system" with ten parts, including Prairie View (Negro) A. & M., the new Gulf Coast Maritime Academy, and the entire Texas Forest Service, which Texas A. & M. administers. A. & M.'s campus computer facilities are among the best in the U.S. It has the biggest activation-analysis lab in the world. It recently developed a new tomato plant tough enough to be machine-harvested, yet obedient enough to grow always to the same height. Among its faculty eminences are top experts on everything from...
Lodge's campaign headquarters announced officially last night that WGBH and WHRB radio will also cover the debate. WGBH-TV, Boston's educational station, can be received at a maximum distance from the Hub of about 65 miles...
...hub of the U.S. campus today is neither lab, library, gym nor classroom, but a huge fun house called the student union that blends the looks of a USO. a Howard Johnson's and the old Havana Hilton with the dreams of Manhattan's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts...
Rockefeller is one of that little group of men who sit at the financial hub of the world's wealthiest nation and by their nods give the stop or go sign to enterprises from Bonn to Bangkok. They wield vast powers?and yet must correctly size up situations around the world and reckon on economic and social changes bigger than their own power to control. They cannot sit still or their strength diminishes; but when they move, they must be nimble as well as sure...