Word: takings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...private cubicle Friday night, staring at the cork wall and then plunged headlong into the gray pamphlet marked Courses of Instruction offered by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. "Hmm, well now," he mused, "like any dutiful junior gov major, I shall take Gov 106a, The History of Political Thought I, this term, in order that I may be fully prepared for my general examinations next year." Methodically, Delwood turned to page 176 in the catalogue and found his prey. MWF at 12--great, noon is a fine time for political theory, good old political theory." He made a note...
...Bell Aircraft Corp., succeeding Leston P. Faneuf, president since 1956, who will spend his time laying down broad policy. Buffalo-born Gaylord graduated from Princeton and the American Institute of Banking, left the investment business in 1941 to join Bell as assistant to the president, quickly rose to take over as president of Bell's helicopter subsidiary in Fort Worth in 1951. As president, Gaylord will divide his time between Fort Worth and Buffalo, regroup the company's defense operations in an effort to stem sagging sales...
...Code-a-Phone Electronics Inc. Operating on transistors, the device records any number of messages up to an hour in length each, also enables the owner to listen in on calls without the caller's knowledge, thus decide whether to talk or let the recorder take a message. Rent: $28 a month...
Thurs., Sept. 24 Staccato (NBC, 8:30-9 p.m.). Pianist-Private Eye Johnny Staccato (John Cassavetes) has hardly slugged his way through his first two capers, but his style is already familiar: early Peter Gunn, with plenty of room for more polish. Still, Johnny is already smooth enough to take on a black-market baby racket...
...said in part, "Radcliffe College exists for only one purpose--to provide that beneficent and civilizing discipline which is the virility of education.... You have come here not to find a husband, but to gain an education. Tend then to the education, for the getting of a husband will take care of itself...