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It may well be difficult to picture a black and white Dalmatian perched atop a screaming fire engine of bright lime yellow, but that peculiar color combination is beginning to appear in fire departments round the nation. Thanks to extensive research by such men as Dr. Stephen Solomon, an optometrist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Fire-Engine Yellow | 7/10/1972 | See Source »

WHATEVER HIS reasons, Dunlop last Fall vetoed the Government Department's recommendation to promote two assistant professors, Robert L. Jervis and James R. Kurth, to the rank of associate professor. You can only promote one, Dunlop told Department chairman James Q. Wilson. When Wilson then presented a Department recommendation to...

Author: By Arthur H. Lubow, | Title: Tell Me, How Can I Get Tenure at Harvard? | 6/15/1972 | See Source »

Both Jervis and Kurth specialize in international relations. Dunlop's original reluctance to promote two men and let them compete for one vacancy may stem from his recognition that in the field of international relations, only half a vacancy exists. Presumably, both Kurth and Jervis are now vying for the...

Author: By Arthur H. Lubow, | Title: Tell Me, How Can I Get Tenure at Harvard? | 6/15/1972 | See Source »

No matter what happens, Kurth and Jervis are relatively fortunate. If they were in the History Department, they would probably be out looking for jobs. The History Department has never appointed a non-tenured associate professor. By interpreting the Dunlop report's guidelines so strictly, the Department in effect has...

Author: By Arthur H. Lubow, | Title: Tell Me, How Can I Get Tenure at Harvard? | 6/15/1972 | See Source »

Moxie and Mink Oil. Only five years ago, Turner gave up selling sewing machines to poor Southern rural blacks and became a distributor for a small cosmetics concern, but he soon wound up broke. He then got a $5,000 bank loan and started his own cosmetics firm, Koscot Interplanetary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROMOTERS: Fast-Buck Gospel | 11/29/1971 | See Source »

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