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...practice was required to master the machines. Robert J. Bertini Jr., a controller, took his home "so I could make my mistakes in private." After three weeks of self-training, Bertini now eagerly displays complicated financial projections and claims that his productivity has increased 10%. Stephen Melvin, president of an aircraft-engine manufacturing division, found the U.T. training sessions "humbling, like golf." But he asserts that the computer lets him dig deeper into his division's operations by giving him quick access to records and data...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: Finding the A on the Keyboard | 5/16/1983 | See Source »

DiCara has little praise for his fellow challengers, accusing them--with the exception of former State Rep. Melvin H. King--of avoiding the issues. He says, "there are some guys who are running who I don't even know what they stand...

Author: By Michael W. Hirschorn, | Title: DiCara Confident of Electoral Success | 5/10/1983 | See Source »

...week, a group of undergraduates--30 by the fast's end--and one professor ended a week-long hunger strike protesting Harvard's investments in South Africa. That fast, which drew national media attention, ended Wednesday with a service in Memorial Church that included remarks from Boston mayoral candidate Melvin H. King and State Sen. Jack H. Backman. But Shaw said the weekly fasts will seek to involve and educate students rather than following the tactics of the earlier hunger strikers, who sought to attract outside attention. "The only way Harvard will divest is if students take up the issue...

Author: By Holly A. Idelson, | Title: BSA Will Continue Fasts for Divestiture | 4/29/1983 | See Source »

...serious candidates--of whom former School Committee President David I. Finnegan and City Councilor Raymond L. Flynn are considered favorites--offered even less excitement. Former State Representative Melvin H. King reached out to gays, women, the poor, and Blacks--whom he termed the "niggers" of Boston. Suffolk County Sheriff Dennis J. Kearney called for opening the door to City Hall and banishing crime from the streets, presumably enhancing his good-guy image, Flynn copped an FDR line, offering the observation that the role of government is to help those who can't help themselves--which prompted one member...

Author: By Michael W. Hirschorn, | Title: Disappointing Debute | 4/28/1983 | See Source »

...week long protest will culminate in a service tomorrow at Memorial Church Abner A Mason '85 a spokesman for the fasters, said yesterday that both the exiled South African journalist Donald Woods and Boston mayoral, candidate Melvin H. King had agreed yesterday to speak at the 1 p.m. service...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hunger Strike | 4/26/1983 | See Source »

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