Word: orderings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...almost six years this column has been the territory of Ralph Davidson. This week I am taking it over in order to report two important new executive assignments, including Davidson's. He is leaving the publisher's chair to join the office of President James R. Shepley. His assignment, as Shepley wrote in a memo to the staff, will be "to share the duties of my office and familiarize himself with all of Time Inc.'s major lines of business...
...keep sheep and want to keep them in order, the thing to have is a sheep dog. The man to get one from at the Sheep Breeders Festival is Maurice MacGregor of Pittsfield, Mass., a bulky emigrant from Northern Ireland who sells border collie pups (at $150 for an eight-week-old pup and $1,000 for a fully trained adult). Selling sheep dogs is his business and many of his sales are made at sheep-dog trials...
...Harvard do things for disabled students before the law went into effect? Yes, says Randolph, but only on an individual basis. What is Harvard doing now in Washington to facilitate this transition? Lobbying hard to secure federal aid to fund architectural changes that are required in order for the University to comply with the regulations...
Regardless of one's level of maturation, March is the month when freshmen must choose their favorites from among the 12 Houses. The House lottery system has changed over the past three years, from a procedure where all 12 Houses were listed in order of preference to one where only the top three choices are considered. Both methods of selection have made use of the principle of "maximization of first choice." The 12-choice system was frowned upon by a large number of freshmen who received their bottom choices, because most thought there would be little chance of receiving anything...
State officials halted the operations of Bill Dillon and Co., an undergraduate-run investment firm, pending an investigation of charges of fraud and other business irregularities. The state order included charges that William P. Dillon '79, president of the company, represented the firm as an independent business when it was in fact a branch office of a larger securities firm. Dillon denied several of the state charges, but admitted that some errors might have been made "inadvertently." "The business was growing too fast. The people working with me were taking more initiative than they should have," he said...