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...agents. While the CIA was recruiting some 50 such Afghans in Europe, it was also, with help from the FBI, gathering a similar group in the U.S. Though most of the recruits were students, one was a Manhattan taxi driver, another a millworker from Ohio, a third a judo instructor from the Southwest...
Meichun Hsu, an instructor in computer science, says that the use of home computers will give students greater flexibility in their courses, but adds, "there will still have to be some coordination." Programs developed on the mainframe VAX System would somehow "have to make their way" onto the students' personal computers, she says...
Bundy has disputed Diamond on a number of points but it is clear now that Harvard did take quiet action against a number of people with past Communist activities, refusing to hire administrators and in one case an instructor. Bundy has said that the administrators were refused positions because academic freedom issues were not involved and that Harvard had to be particularly careful during the years of the McCarthy attack. In the case of the man up for an instructorship. Bundy has said that the decision was made by the Corporation and that he "disagreed." Pusey has been more quiet...
...father can't remember taking a single class where the instructor was a woman. That may not be a lapse of memory: there was only one tenured woman on the faculty at the time. She was one of the first women to win a lifetime appointment here, thanks in part to a feisty benefactor who endowed a chair on the condition that it be filled by a female scholar. The professor, a medieval historian named Helen Maud Cam,learned as many lessons at Harvard as she taught. In her first years here, she was barred from attending morning services...
...insurance executive, Adams was raised in San Francisco in a chalet-like house overlooking the Golden Gate. He learned to play the piano under the stern tutelage of a German music instructor, who taught him, he later said, the necessity of technical excellence in the pursuit of artistic expression. In 1916 Adams took along a Kodak box Brownie on a trip to Yosemite Valley, and what he saw through that lens awakened the taste of a lifetime. The mountains gave him not only his subject but an occupation: as a youth he took a caretaker's job there...