Word: main
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...main value in such work, some computer enthusiasts say, is that it promotes logic. "You can't program a problem unless you understand it and think clearly," says Lafayette College's Computer Director James Schwar. Most students cozy up to their computers. "They have no fear of them," explains Harvard Linguistics and Mathematics Professor Anthony Oettinger. "The problem is to keep them from getting addicted...
...trying to increase its work force from 26,000 to 33,000 people, has hired retired stewardesses in 30 cities, sends them out to recruit younger girls. In Boston, John Hancock Life Insurance Co. advertises for secretarial help on rock-'n'-roll radio stations, brags that its main office is near "the grooviest shops in town." Competing New England Mutual Life Insurance will pay an employee $25 for persuading a friend to join the company, another $75 if the friend stays for a year. Avis rent-a-car uses prime-time television to advertise for car washers...
...good yarns. His fishing and hunting stories made sea and forest seem God's heaven. And he had wise words for would-be writers: "Real seriousness in regard to writing is one of the two absolute necessities. The other, unfortunately, is talent." But always the book's main interest is the author. It traces the rise, the peaking out and the decline of Ernest Hemingway as stylist...
Members of the Eliot House senior common room, working with a small group of alumni, began planning the silver anniversary celebration more than a year ago. Finley himself will be the main speaker, though a number of other Faculty members and alumni will talk briefly...
...successor. Another endless policy debate inside the Press is the question of paperbacks. It has long been the Press's policy to sell paperback rights to other publishers more able to distribute them and eager to pay good advances and royalties, contrary to other university Presses. Harvard's main reason for avoiding the lucrative paperback market is that it doesn't have a large enough staff to handle the extra burden. But future expansion may change that...