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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gillette Co. in Boston performs research on some 500 male employees who report to work stubble-faced every morning and subject themselves to nicks and scrapes. The experimental shaves provide the company with the kind of data that resulted in the introduction two months ago of a new blade-angle adjustment on its bestselling Techmatic Razor. To design a more comfortable and efficient shooting jacket for Olin Mathieson's Winchester-Western rifle subsidiary, Connecticut-based Dunlap & Associates, a leading industrial-consulting firm, spent months studying where existing jackets were binding and where more freedom of movement was required...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Fitting Machines to People | 11/15/1968 | See Source »

Revising titles was the Dunlop Report's main short-term recommendation, but the recommendations go much further, and already Tuesday the Faculty was getting started on the big questions--like the distribution of work and authority within the Faculty and the speed and direction of its growth...

Author: By Richard R. Edmonds, | Title: Dunlop's Iceberg | 11/15/1968 | See Source »

...last report as long and complicated as the Dunlop Committee's was the Doty report on General Education, Wilcox says, "and to this day it is very hard to find out just what the decision of the Faculty was." In a debate that spread out over more than a year, the Faculty eventually approved the principle of General Education while rejecting the plan the Doty Committee proposed, leaving the future shape of the program indeterminate...

Author: By Richard R. Edmonds, | Title: Dunlop's Iceberg | 11/15/1968 | See Source »

...fact is that legislation and English prose are two different things," Wilcox said last week, and to avoid a repetition of the Doty Report confusion, he tried to break down the 48 recommendations into items for legislation. Dunlop was cool to the idea of an item by item discussion from the first, and Wilcox concedes now that the attempt to translate recommendations into questions for debate and a vote was not a success. "Many of these things are linked, and you can't destroy the damned coherence of the prose...

Author: By Richard R. Edmonds, | Title: Dunlop's Iceberg | 11/15/1968 | See Source »

Dunlop said Monday he would like to see the Faculty endorse the report in principle, section by section, deleting or rewording any recommendation that members find objectionable. "That commits nobody to every jot and tiddle of the report and gives the Faculty a chance for a more general discussion on questions like the economic restraints on expansion...

Author: By Richard R. Edmonds, | Title: Dunlop's Iceberg | 11/15/1968 | See Source »

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