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...Cambridge without meeting a faculty member of higher rank than a teaching fellow. And it is possible to make a gentleman’s C with little or no work and have the only permanent trace of one’s presence here a series of impressions on an IBM card. This spirit of live and let live extends through every aspect of undergraduate life. There are no big men on campus, only a host of little big men. The quest for fame reaches an early, flickering peak when 50 freshmen of whom no one but a few old-school...
...ABC’s “The Iran Crisis: America Held Hostage” to listen to Ted Koppel’s analysis of the situation. That broadcast “helped keep the issue front and center at Harvard and across the nation,” IBM Professor of Business and Government Roger B. Porter says.The crisis would play an enormous role in the 1980 presidential campaign and would jeopardize Carter’s chance at reelection. But even at Harvard, events taking place thousands of miles away sometimes hit particularly close to home.DON...
Though John A. Armstrong ’56 is a physicist by training, he is knowledgeable in areas as disparate as meteorology and submarines. During his 30-year career at IBM, where he ultimately served as vice president for science and technology, he directed research during an era during which the cutting edge of technology progressed from lasers to microprocessors...
...However Armstrong, who had no intention of becoming an academic, signed on at IBM after completing his post-doctorate in 1963. There he continued the research he had pursued at Harvard, becoming an expert on the study of lasers...
...Colleague John J. Wynne ’64 was hired by Armstrong in 1964 to work in his IBM laboratory. Wynne also studied physics at Harvard under Bloembergen, though not until after Armstrong had left the University...