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...despite all of these credentials, Walkeraccepted an invitation from Harvard last year toplan the gala stadium concert. The former Directorof Entertainment at Disneyland says that he doesnot think of coming to Harvard as taking a stepdown. "Harvard's been so much to the nation. It'sa great honor to produce their 350th and it's achallenge because there are so many differentideas...
...THIS FRANTIC RUMBLING, of course, may be moot. Boston Edison must build still a $10-$15 million stepdown station to accomodate MATEP's backup requirement. If it refuses to do so, Harvard is left with a multimillion dollar conversation piece. Even if Edison comes through, MATEP will have to spend about $1 million a year to buy power it may never use, which might make the power plant cost inefficient...
...several different mechanisms that turn the hour and minute hands. Bulova uses the electronic tuning fork developed in its Accutron watch, a battery-powered model that is just a shade less accurate than the Accuquartz; Timex employs a conventional balance wheel; Benrus, the Swiss and the Japanese use a "stepdown" motor. Linking these mechanisms to the quartz crystal is an integrated electronic-circuit chip, and U.S. electronic firms are enthusiastically moving to supply the chips to the quartz watch market. Japanese, Swiss and American watchmakers are buying theirs from such firms as Motorola and Texas Instruments...
Besides the swirlpool baths (also called "Roman Stepdown Tubs"), there are four outside pools, three of them simmering at more than 100°. To their boiling depths come crowds of celebrities, and not only show-business types but also such solid citizens as Steelworkers Chief David McDonald, Golfer Gary Player and Joe DiMaggio. Late last month, Banowit opened the Palm Springs Spa Hotel and Mineral Springs, a $2,500,000 edifice touted simply as "the most beautiful bathhouse in the world...
...week-day night in the stepdown lounge of the Graduate Center, only a few students can be found in the overstuffed couches, thumbing through magazines, listening to music. Upstairs in the grill, a few more drop in for a quiet mid-evening beer. Outside, the winding ramps between dormitories are quiet, and inside the dorms, little can be heard above the occasional clacking of a typewriter. The graduate students--almost to the man--are studying. Not studying for hour exams, or cramming for a day's memory, but studying with a broad view to the doctoral examinations: a complete review...