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...theme of a panel held before winter break, sponsored by the Institute of Politics' (IOP) "Pizza and Politics" program. Panelists encouraged students to take a more active role in the community outside the University by participating in both social service and politics and also suggested that Cambridge history be taught during first-year Orientation Week. We couldn't agree more...
...Brown taught at Harvard following World War II and then accepted a full professorship at MIT in 1957. He returned to Harvard in 1962 and become the John Lindsley professor of psychology. He retired...
Andras Grof was born on Sept. 2, 1936, in Budapest, the son of George, the dairyman, and Maria, a bookkeeping clerk. His father, a gregarious, easygoing man with a strong, logical mind, left school early and taught himself business and accounting--everything he needed to know to run a small dairy service. Grove's mother, a spare, lovely woman, raised him in their two-room 19th century apartment. From an early age Grove was marked as the son of a capitalist and as a Jew. His parents hoped that with hard work he could overcome the prejudices...
...pencils. As we were walking through the newsroom, Grove stopped to peer into the wire room, a small area overstuffed with fax and teletype machines, and exclaimed, "This is absolutely incredible equipment! In fact, it should be in the Smithsonian." That and subsequent conversations with Andy over the years taught me to appreciate his wit and his wisdom and sensitized me to the power of the chip and its role in our lives...
DIED. RALPH FASANELLA, 83, self-taught painter; in Yonkers, N.Y. A machinist who took up the brush to help his arthritis, Fasanella was "discovered" in 1972. His favorite subjects: the Big Apple and its human gridlock...