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Several major Harvard figures passed away this year. The most prominent was Warburg Professor of Economics Otto Eckstein. who succumbed to a long bout with cancer in March Eckstein, who was 56, will be remembered by generations of Harvard undergraduates as the leader of Economics 10, later Social Analysis 10. "Principles of Economics." His colleagues will remember him as one of the early pioneers of economic forecasting. Eckstein was the founder of Data Resources Inc the largest forecasting firm in the world...
Senior Writer Otto Friedrich, who wrote the main cover story with the assistance of Reporter-Researcher Anne Hopkins, was also a newsman at the time of Dday, but on a small Vermont paper; at 15, a recent high school graduate, he was too young to fight. "But I followed the war closely," he says. "I remember how excited we all got on Dday. We knew it was the beginning...
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There is general agreement, however, that the issue of radical sections came up this year as a result of the transfer in course leadership, caused by the death of Warburg Professor of Economics Otto Eckstein, long-time helmsman of Ec 10. "It was definitely because of the new blood that the question was raised," Goulder said...
...person, a region of turbulence when violated, as in "He takes up too much of my space." Strong. Term of praise when applied to women. When applied to men, it implies tendency toward insensitivity, even machismo. Wholeness. Hoped-for consequence of commitment. Sometimes even includes dishwashing and dog. -By Otto Friedrich