Word: panels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Indianapolis and Houston. What can a beleaguered mayor do about it? In Cleveland, where various police have stood accused of protecting pimps, accepting payoffs to influence court cases and operating burglary rings, Mayor Ralph J. Perk is attacking corruption from the highest ground. Two weeks ago he picked a panel of five clergymen to investigate the charges. It was a beautifully balanced ticket: two Roman Catholic priests, one Baptist minister who is a black, one Hungarian Reformed Protestant minister and one rabbi...
Ultimate Gesture. After Sports Fan Warner Brown, 10, correctly selected from a list that lit up on Leachim's visual panel the word barometer as the one associated with weather forecasting, the robot rewarded him with brief observations about New York basketball and football teams. "You did very well," Leachim added. "I hope you enjoyed working with me. I like Joe Namath. I'm sure you do too." But if pupils take too long to answer, Warner explains, "Leachim says. 'You are not listening. Choose an answer now.' If you still...
...automakers and parts suppliers are also promoting a whole range of new products supposed to save gasoline, a more acceptable form of gas-mileage salesmanship. Ford, for example, offers for $20.95 an instrument-panel "fuel sentry" that warns a driver when he should decelerate because he is burning too much gas. Chrysler will soon offer for $10 to $12 a "fuel pacer system"-a light mounted on the fender that glows when a driver is wasting fuel by accelerating too fast. Such devices may be useful, but most drivers are likely to find that the ultimate fuel-saving gadget...
Daniel Graber, a fourth-year graduate student in Philosophy, and a member of a six-member panel at the symposium, said Wednesday that salaries for teaching fellows at Harvard have not kept up with the rise in the cost of living...
Daniel Garber, a fourth-year graduate student in philosophy and the graduate student representative on the panel, drew applause from the audience of graduate students when he said that salaries for teaching fellows have not kept up with the rise in the cost of living. "This presents serious educational dangers to graduate students, besides being bad in itself," he said...