Word: poling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Santa Clauses interviewed on the street and in department stores last week admitted that they were not the same man who sources say rides from the North Pole around Christmastime...
...North Pole technicians ought to have quite a time trying to satisfy E.O. Wilson, Baird Professor of Science. "I want a machine that would transport me instantaneously between the office and the Amazon rain forest," he says. Others seek equally uncanny research aids. Thomas R. Martin, assistant professor of the Classics asks for "an immense personal library open all hours...
...Crimson announced plans for a Harvard track carnival. "The purpose of the carnival is to give all members of the University a chance to compete," the article said. The meet included interdormitory relay races and a shot-put event, as well as a potato race, a sack race, a pole-climbing competition and other less-than-standard track and field events. The Class of 1909 won the tug of war. The winter carnival became a popular annual event and was continued for many years...
...Bellin, a Filene's Santa who recently graduated from Tufts and now hopes to enter a managerial training program, says he has some requests that he just couldn't handle. "Last week a teenage girl sat in his lap and asked for a boyfriend Bellin, in his best North Pole accent, recommended some sleaze bars downtown." But later that day, Bellin was reduced to silence when a five-year-old girl asked for a Ferrari Bellin says his key to success is making both parents and children laugh, but he adds. "That's not very difficult with disco renditions...
...Snow, the British scientist and novelist, sounded the alarm in the 1950s about the dangers of two cultures: "Literary intellectuals at one pole, at the other scientists." Since then, microchips, satellites and nuclear power have become realities that define everyday life; yet many supposedly well-educated people do not understand how they work. Despite the growing use of computers in classrooms, American universities are still graduating millions of technological illiterates...