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FOOTNOTE: *The oral reminiscences came into the hands of Time Inc. in 1970 and were the basis for the volume of memoirs Khrushchev Remembers. Time Inc. donated the tapes to Columbia University, which allowed ABC to broadcast them for the first time...
...Allis Chalmers ($2 million) and Tokheim ($.8 million). The University sold its shares of Baker International (about $1 million) on the same grounds last February. HARVARD DIVESTMENTS Corporation Amount Date of Divestment Baker International Co. $1 million February 1985 Allis Chalmers $2 million August 1985 Tokheim, Inc. $.8 million September...
...have computers, two-thirds of the teachers are using programs like the Bank Street Writer (300,000 sold) to spare at least some of their students the burden of recopying entire compositions in order to make substantive changes. Also growing in popularity are filing programs and electronic encyclopedias. Scholastic Inc. this year is publishing 15 sets of floppy disks crammed with facts from history, science and language arts. By learning how to cull files for, say, information about major treaties signed by American Indian leaders of the 19th century, students can develop both computer and social-studies skills. Says Walter...
...main talk of the show, though, was about static heading across the airwaves for satellite-dish owners. Cable-system operators, like Tele- Communications Inc., are upset that the backyard stations are receiving for free what subscribers pay monthly fees to view. Pay-cable channels, including Time Inc.'s Home Box Office and Viacom's Showtime, are also miffed. Whereas cable subscribers pay extra monthly fees for these movie and special-events channels, dish owners can bypass cable and receive them free of charge...
...have nothing to lose. Even if they should lose their own lives, they feel they will not have lost very much. Besides, why should they be good, they ask. There is no reward for good behavior." Paul Hubbard, vice president of an independent urban planning agency called New Detroit Inc., is struck by the sense of detachment and despair among violent young blacks. "They have a value system much different from ours, and they don't have a reason for adopting our value system because we haven't been able to show them why they should...