Word: labs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Today Robbins encourages the same kind of entrepreneurial experimentation. As part of their three-week training program, fledgling district sales representatives are asked to concoct a new flavor. Robbins even turned TIME'S Michael Creedman loose in the lab last week. The reporter mixed print-stock-white vanilla with letter-size bits of black chocolate and a ribbon of magazine-border-red strawberry to produce a flavor called Stop the Presses...
...Science Center will be a building of gigantic proportions. It includes 297,000 gross square feet of space; when finished in September, 1972, production costs total $17.6 million. That figure includes construction costs, site work, architects fees and lab furnishings. Not included are the expenses which are required to open the building for use, such as most lab equipment and maintenance costs. According to Rustam Z. Kothavala, lecturer in Geology and director of the Center until the end of this month, these costs are expected to be an additional $15 million the first year and nearly $1.0 million each year...
With all the demands on science money-phase II, the opening and upkeep of the Center, and the renovation of old teaching labs into research labs, Kothavala notes a definite need to set priorities, and phase II is likely to be near the bottom of the list. Particularly expensive will be the reconversion of present teaching labs in the old science buildings into usable research space, once that lab space becomes available as students move to the new Center...
...Manhattan Project, and his still current enjoyment of skiing and sailing. His office has a mantelpiece covered with Presidential medals and other mementees which he will talk about unabashedly. His friends say that a characteristic storminess follows Kisty wherever he goes, no matter what he does. In the lab, he's known as the victim of many accidental explosions; socially, Kisty has married three times, with his first two marriages ending in divorce...
...spent a year bumming in the Balkans." He had various odd jobs and in Belgrade, he got hired to replace broken windows and learned how to cut plate glass skillfully. (Years later, this knack with glass became useful when Kistiakowsky did spectroscopic research. He even taught a course in lab techniques which included lessons in glass-blowing...