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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Gould] has been a well known scientist for over 10 years," says Assistant Professor of Biology Pere I. Alberch, adding that the media have been slow to catch...

Author: By Lucy I. Armstrong, | Title: Gould Treasures | 2/29/1984 | See Source »

...built by RCA in the '50s, but it was not until the mid-'60s that Robert Moog, a New Yorker, and Don Buchla, a Californian, independently designed the first practical models. They were ungainly machines, bristling with plugs and wires that looked more at home in a scientist's laboratory than on a stage. In 1968 Wendy Carlos (then Walter, before a sex change) used a Moog for the album Switched-On Bach, a fetching electronic counterfeit that alerted musicians to the instrument's possibilities. Carlos, however, had to synthesize each phrase individually...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Switched-On Rock, Wired Classics | 2/27/1984 | See Source »

...their table in a Kremlin banquet hall. It was symbolic confirmation of the vexing problem that faced the Soviet Union as it prepared for the second transition of power in only 15 months: there was no obvious candidate to fill the vacancy left by Andropov. Says Cornell University Political Scientist Myron Rush: "Since nobody is in a strong position, practically everybody is in a strong position...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Soviets: Standing at a Great Divide | 2/20/1984 | See Source »

This is precisely what President Bok did in naming economist A. Michael Spence to succeed Rosovsky. The new dean is not a scientist as many in Harvard's laboratories were reportedly urging on Bok. Nor has he taken unusually active role in collective Faculty affairs as some might have expected of a new dean. Rather, at 40, Spence is one of the youngest and, by all accounts, brightest members of the Faculty. He should, simply by dint of not being all that well known, bring a breath of fresh air to University Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Consider Students | 2/15/1984 | See Source »

Spence is the third straight economist appointed to fill what is generally considered to be Harvard's second most important academic post, succeeding Rosovsky and Lamont University Professor John T. Dunlop. There had been widespread Faculty speculation that Bok might appoint the first scientist ever in fill the post, but said in the end the decision came was best qualified...

Author: By John F. Baughman, | Title: Spence Introduced as Dean | 2/9/1984 | See Source »

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