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...What are you taking besides science?" he asks insecurely, and the first battle is yours. Since you still can't remember what else you're taking besides Nat Sci 6 and Hum 5, you move on applying similar techniques...

Author: By Joel E. Cohen, | Title: Courses of Instruction | 9/23/1963 | See Source »

...Well, most of my published writings have been rather impressionistic so I thought I'd try Tartaglia's seminar in analysis." "Analysis" could mean mathematics, literature or psychology; hence the danger in using a real name (your Hum 5 section...

Author: By Joel E. Cohen, | Title: Courses of Instruction | 9/23/1963 | See Source »

...eight competitors, Otis never lost its early lead. With more than 250,000 of its elevators in operation around the world, Otis does double the business of its only real competitor, Westinghouse, makes about 25% of its money by maintaining the elevators it installs. A battery of 58 Otises hum up and down the Empire State Building; Otis elevators lift planes aboard the carriers Saratoga and Independence and promenaders aboard such liners as the France, the Leonardo da Vinci and Cunard's Queens, raise Atlas and Titan missiles into firing positions at missile sites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporations: Elevating Influence | 6/28/1963 | See Source »

...makes any sense.JOHN H. FINLEY, JR., co-author of the Redbook and a member of the Doty Committee, has the longest record of service in General Education. As Chairman of the Faculty Gen Ed Committee, he is responsible for recruiting teachers for new courses. In addition, he teaches in Hum 2 ("Epic and Drama") and Hum 3 ("The Experience of the Drama...

Author: By Josiah LEE Auspitz, | Title: General Education: The Program To Preserve Harvard College | 6/13/1963 | See Source »

Into Training. The son of a janitor in Tiflis, Armenia, Petrosyan played his first game at twelve. He was a master at 19, an international grand master at 23. But in the Soviet Union, grand masters are so ho-hum that it took him eleven years and uncountable victories to earn the right to challenge Botvinnik, who won the world championship in 1948 and, except for a lapse of two years, has defended it successfully ever since. Like a football quarterback, Petrosyan scouted his opponent-poring over charts of Botvinnik's games. Like a boxer, he went into training...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chess: The Newest Idol | 5/31/1963 | See Source »

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