Word: ued
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...inanity wasn't restricted to the announcing. Chevrolet paid ABC $69,000 for a one-minute commercial showing Chevy's six small cars out in the snow on the side of a mountain, while a chorus rhymed Chevrolet with U. S. of A. over and over, and the main plug came from a dude in front of a standup piano amongst the cars, in the snow, in the middle of nowhere...
When Stephen S.J. Hall, vice president for administration, and Charles U. Daly, vice president for government and community affairs, joined the University administration in 1971, they made it clear to Bok that they expected to stay no longer than five years. They said they were strong believers in turnover--and very much against the pseudo-tenure that tends to develop when university administrators linger in one place too long. Meanwhile, Bok has consciously let his vice presidents grow from controllable arms to autonomous bodies. As he said about the vice presidents...
That's Charles U. Daly, vice president for government and community affairs, talking about one of Hall's cost accounting devices--a palm-print scanner to crack down on dining hall freeloaders...
...January 7, Charles S. Bergen '77, a Classics player and a Crimson editor, received a letter from Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) containing a similar warning. Kennedy noted that the State Department "has turned aside proposals for Cuban-U.S. baseball competition...
...technique appears an easy rival to that of Vladimir Horowitz. Yet Berman's is a humble kind of virtuosity that is not afraid of understatement. His debut, the start of a 15-concert tour of nine states, occurred in a walled-off end of Millett Hall, the Miami U. sports arena-which had surprisingly good acoustics. A burly bear with stooped shoulders, ginger-colored beard and long brown hair that waves up at the neck, Berman came out looking grim and tense. Once he was at the keyboard, all illusions of nerves or cumbersomeness vanished. He sits squarely...