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NATIONAL INVITATIONAL TOURNAMENT (CBS, 1:30-3 p.m.). First-round game of college basketball's oldest post-season event from Madison Square Garden...
However inevitable, the merger symbolizes a new Harvard that old grads would barely recognize. Almost every U.S. campus is changing drastically these days. As usual, though, Harvard seems to be outdoing the rest-or trying awfully hard. The nation's oldest university has gone hip, and no one is yet sure where the limits may lie. Junior Bob Telson from Brooklyn barely exaggerates when he says: "Today the only thing you could possibly be booted for is something you'd get two years for in the outside world...
...George) William Miller, 43, heads Textron Inc., the oldest and one of the soundest conglomerates, and he is an articulate critic of racier companies. Textron, which started the conglomerate trend nearly two decades ago, has acquired the kind of image that newer conglomerates covet. Miller picked up two more companies last year ?Talon zippers and Fafnir bearings?but Textron seems less interested in acquiring new branches than in managing and expanding the many that it already has. Its 33 diverse divisions turn out Bell helicopters, Sheaffer pens, Speidel watchbands, Gorham silverware, Bostitch staplers and some 70 other products. Last...
...sure he "will be remembered as one significant part of our time." Whether or not he will be, I cannot predict. I can see no reason why he should be. People were enjoying sex and seeking pleasure long before Hefner made his appearance. Hedonism is one of the oldest and most common of all philosophies. In every age it has appealed primarily to men of the lowest character and intellect, and one of its most celebrated practitioners was a man named Nero...
...year ago, Hartford's venerable Wadsworth Atheneum-which claims to be the U.S.'s oldest public museum-closed its doors to the public. It had to. Since its opening in 1844 with 53 art objects, its collection had grown to some 50,000 pieces, and in the five years before it began closing down, attendance had more than doubled to an annual total of 255,000. Expansion was desperately needed; some of the 60 staff members had been working out of converted coatrooms...