Word: tapping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Scholars personally involved in the Institute will have one questionable advantage: they will be able to tap a mine of source material that would otherwise not be available in Cambridge. Richard E. Neustadt, professor of Government and the Institute's director, uses the example of Lawrence O'Brien, who has been responsible for executive-congressional relations under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson. Nothing on the subject has been written down, but the changes have been vast; only O'Brien can explain them. To bring men like him to the Institute would make it an attractive place for scholars, Neustadt argues...
...recently been discovered" in their industry; the survey also found that executives under 50 are less concerned than their elders about the ethics of pirating and spying. Some firms go so far as to hire professional spies, plant informers inside other companies, bribe or blackmail employees for information, tap telephones, even sort rubbish. "I'm picking up a couple of barrels of trash a night now," a California private detective admitted last week. "The way they use these carbons only once now, it's a cinch." Not all of the espionage work is underhand, of course: many companies...
When air is bubbled in, the cell heats up to 140° F. (about the temperature of household hot tap water). Helped by a catalyst, the methanol combines with oxygen, forming carbon dioxide and wa ter while releasing electrons. The 29-lb. cell produces 100 watts of power at 5 volts' pressure, and its efficiency is as high as 40% . An auto engine, by comparison, is doing well if it gets 15% efficiency out of its gasoline fuel...
...though the Crimson has no chance to win, spectators today should see the best Harvard efforts of the season, and a host of new pool records. Of the ten swimming events on tap, the Yalles have bettered the existing marks...
Miami-based Deltona Corp. set up an office in Frankfurt in 1963 to tap a market among U.S. servicemen overseas, now finds that sales to Europeans are as high as those to Americans. Europeans have bought $1,250,000 worth of lots at Deltona developments near Daytona Beach and on San Marco Island off Florida's west coast. A Nürnberg accountant named Herman Boeckler grew so enthusiastic after a visit to his lots that he not only bought more property but formed a Deltona Club back home. Even some of Europe's lesser nobility have been...