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...operator reported the call to the Harvard Police, who then contacted McClure. McClure sent a resident tutor to set off the fire alarm, but the alarm only rung in the Kirkland annex, which contains entries J through...
Frahm does not have anyone specific in mind as his successor. "It's not as easy as it looks," he said yesterday of the bell, which is rung in a set pattern with a common dining, half knife. Although he would "definitely like to see someone play next year," he added that he would like only one successor, who appreciates the timing needed to produce an effective crowd response...
...expects to post a $400 million profit this year. Mail orders will generate close to $40 billion in consumer sales, mostly from catalogues. Last year the food category alone accounted for some $465 million in purchases. While the business represents only about 4% of the $1 trillion in sales rung up by U.S. retailers, it is growing by about 15% yearly, five times as fast as over-the-counter retail sales. By 1990, mail sales are expected to account for 20% of all general merchandise sold in the U.S. To an ever increasing number of consumers with neither time...
...smart newlyweds of a generation ago, their home, the first rung on the ladder of upward mobility, was almost inevitably furnished with "Danish modern," complete with Marimekko textiles, stainless-steel cutlery and plain white tableware. There was no better way to show modernity. Recently, however, modern Scandinavian design seems to have vanished from public awareness in the U.S. Much of it has been poorly adapted and absorbed by U.S. mass culture. In addition, it is no longer modern to be modern...
...Schlitz Brewing Co., currently the third largest brewer, has a shaky grasp on that rung. Once the largest selling beer in America, Schlitz lost that position in the 1950s to Budweiser, then lost even more ground in the 1970s when it changed to a faster brewing process that yielded an inferior brew. Schlitz later returned to the original formula, but it has yet to win back all its beer lovers...