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...crowd of scientists, industrialists and other celebrities will gather amid the historic buildings at Greenfield Village in Dearborn, Mich., to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of Edison's banishment of darkness. In Edison's laboratory-disassembled in Menlo Park, N.J., by his good friend Henry Ford, then crated and shipped to Dearborn along with seven railroad cars full of the clay soil on which it sat-the audience will watch a re-enactment of the scene. Madeline Edison Sloane, the inventor's great-granddaughter, will throw the switch that opened a new era. As the German historian Emil...
While Radcliffe College was celebrating its hundredth anniversary, its sixth president, Psychologist Matina Horner, 39, cited these observations as a low-water mark against which to measure Radcliffe's 100-year drive toward equality with Harvard. "The intriguing thing," says Horner, "is that we have been working out at the institutional level the very things that men and women are facing today in their relationships, such as power and control, autonomy and commitment, the clashing of priorities, and self-esteem...
Joel started off her evening by swimming the 100-yd. breaststroke in a team-record time of 1:03:51 to break her own week-old mark by one one-hundredth of a second. She then topped teammate Maura Costin's old team record of 2:44 in the 200-yd. individual medley by 11.19 seconds, and finished with a close win in the 200-yd. breaststroke...
...fund effort was not conceived as part of the centennial, but Radcliffe's hundredth anniversary adds "interest and momentum" to the drive, she said...
...done much for the head. Still bleary-eyed, still in a fog, still feeling the pitchers of beer from the night before. Groping my way down Broadway, wondering why the hell I was heading to the Museum of Modern Art to see Guernica and the rest for the hundredth time...