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...manager of about $1 billion in investments. "I can't say if I'm a token director, but if I thought I was, I wouldn't be on boards," she insists. Over the years she has joined the boards of A T & T, Kraftco and Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance as well as G.M. An austere person who finds Women's Lib a little brash, Cleary has nonetheless appointed women to one executive post out of ten at her bank. She is the only female on First Wisconsin's board, however...
...determined Crimson seven, withstanding a during rally by Northwestern, best the Huskies, 11-8 in waterpole section at the IAB last night...
Laura Z. Hobson, who prodded the public conscience with her 1947 novel about antiSemitism, Gentlemen's Agreement, complained that "you cannot be a bigot and be lovable." Lear replied that bigotry was most common and most insidious when it occurred in otherwise lovable people. Since then, Northwestern University Sociologist Charles Moskos has supported both the Bunkers and the deBunkers by arguing that Family's humor cuts two ways: "It is a cheap way for tolerant upper-middle-class liberals to escape their own prejudices while the bigots get their views reinforced." Lear concedes that the humorous treatment...
Magic. A nomadic tribe of warriors, the Navajos called themselves the Dineh ("People of the Earth"). In the middle of the 16th century, they migrated from what is now northwestern Canada to the American Southwest. There they first encountered horses and sheep-both brought to the New World by Spanish conquistadors. While the Navajo men hunted and raided, the women learned weaving from the tribe's more peaceful neighbors-and frequent victims-the Pueblos. At first they copied Pueblo styles, but they soon developed their own. As early as 1795, Governor Fernando Chacón observed that "they work...
...highlight of the event was a game in the final round between the defending champion from Northwestern University, and last year's runner-up, from Carnegie-Mellon. The game was exciting, not only because both programs were undefeated, but also because it amounted to a clash between two different styles. The Northwestern program, named Chess 3.5, looked ahead 4 ply at most. However, its evaluation function was very sophisticated, and it assessed positions on the basis of material, pawn structure, control of the center, and safety of the king. The other program, Tech, could look ahead...