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...elections in 1977 or 1981. Harvard would have ignored the 1977 NLRB ruling and refused to negotiate with the union, forcing the matter into the courts--where it probably would have remained for years to get its side a second hearing. Harvard's financial and legal resources won this moth's decision and would probably have prevailed over a fledgling union in a lengthy court battle...
...gets credit for coining the name of a ubiquitous computer phenomenon: the bug. In August 1945, while she and some associates were working at Harvard on an experimental machine called the Mark I, a circuit malfunctioned. A researcher using tweezers located and removed the problem: a 2-in. long moth. Hopper taped the offending insect into her logbook. Says she: "From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs...
...moth is still under tape along with records of the experiment at the U.S. Naval Surface Weapons Center...
Most of the rooms in the museum smell of moth balls, alcohol and dust. By simply unlocking a cabinet, and pulling out one of the drawers, students can confront face to face a giant harpy eagle which eats 30 pound mammals...
...Porter had written the classic "list" song, Let's Do It, Let's Fall in Love with its chromatic descent and brilliant cascade of double-entendres: "The most refined lady bugs do it,/ When a gentleman calls,/ Moths in your rugs do it,/ What's the use of moth balls?" For a subsequent show he wrote You Do Something to Me. Its echoing rhymes ("Do do that voodoo that you do so well") were to become a Porter hallmark. But they also betrayed a lifelong preference for facility over feeling...