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Harvard will be paying out interest of about seven percent, while it can then reinvest that money in Treasury bonds earning 12 percent, explained Sherwood Bain, senior vice-president of the Boston investment banking firm, Burgess and Leith...
Barnardsville Elementary School in North Carolina has installed a vending machine to sell noncarbonated soft drinks; coins deposited in it go into the lunch program. Says Principal Roy P. McGuinn: "I'm opposed to it, but I'll compromise my principles that far to help this program." Leith Walk Elementary School in Baltimore is considering buying prepackaged lunches from outside suppliers instead of preparing food in its own kitchen...
...families who went to Edinburgh in the train of Mary Queen of Scots. Nondescript caddy yards seem unlikely vessels of tradition for a game whose aristocratic origins date back to the reign of King Charles I. Charles received the news of the Irish Rebellion while playing a round at Leith, but the legend of Hagen's verve and reckless gamesmanship has managed to bridge the years and has found its way to Bartlett. Although Hagen died in 1969, slumped in the corner of Rochester's ramshackle caddy pen sits a greybeard who Bartlett says "used to caddy for Hagen...
...Reality. Gabor's holograms were crude because his beam of filtered green light was not intense enough to produce a clear image. But in 1963, after the invention of the laser made available powerful single-frequency light waves that were precisely in phase. University of Michigan Physicists Emmett Leith and Juris Uptanieks made Gabor's holography a practical reality. Already used in displays, material testing, medical diagnosis and computer memory banks, holography has potential for 3-D movies and, some day, for television...
...considerable nonmilitary fallout from secret work. A 26-acre antenna built at Stanford to help the U.S. learn how to detect enemy missile launches was used by Stanford Electrical Engineer Von R. Eshleman to bounce the first radar signals off the sun.* Classified research at Michigan helped Emmett N. Leith develop the new science of holography (see SCIENCE), which uses laser light to produce three-dimensional images with potential uses in art, television and industry. Says Leith: "The idea that you can close yourself off to these programs is pure ignorance...