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...This will be a team of spectacular individual strength," Harvard track captain Jeff Huvelle said yesterday, summing up his expectations for the outdoor season. "Our main asset will be our ability to pulverize the opposition in certain events...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Trackmen Expect Success in Spring; Crimson Runners Headed for Jamaica | 3/20/1968 | See Source »

...Center moved in July, 1966, to 53 Church St., an early-nineteenth century house which Harvard bought from Cambridge (it was used by the city's Boy Scouts) and renovated to serve as the Center's headquarters for its first few years. Practically all of the Center's main programs were begun in its first academic year...

Author: By Jack Davis, | Title: The Unknown Charles Warren Center | 3/18/1968 | See Source »

Deferred Profitability. The Century computers are adaptable for big companies that need highly sophisticated computers, but NCR will direct its main sales drive toward smaller businessmen -banks with less than $5,000,000 assets, even corner drugstores and service stations-who up to now thought that they could not afford a computer. NCR will either rent them one or else ser vice at one of its data-processing centers the records that shopkeepers compile on other NCR business machines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: Down to the Corner Store | 3/15/1968 | See Source »

Prestige & Necessity. To build Tarbela's 9,000-ft.-long, 470-ft-high main embankment, nearly as much earth will have to be shifted as was excavated for the Panama Canal. Four half-mile-long tunnels, each 45 ft. in diameter, must be dug through the rock of surrounding mountains to bring water into the electric generators and irrigation releases. Eventually a 50-mile reservoir will form behind the dam to provide water for crops during West Pakistan's long dry season. So much silt does the Indus carry-twice as much as the Nile at flood season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pakistan: Winner of the Job | 3/15/1968 | See Source »

That is the script's main-and almost only-joke. As the story's central character, Actor Segal shows flashes of a comic talent hitherto unexplored by Hollywood. But what picture there is for stealing is burgled by Wiseman with his portrayal of a stereotypical literateur. As lofty as Edmund Wilson, he pronounces Jehovah-like judgments on literature and humanity, while for his livelihood, he caters to audiences of culture-ridden housewives who beg, "Please, my Debbie wanted me to ask you about Philip Roth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Movies: Bye Bye Bravermcm | 3/15/1968 | See Source »

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