Word: variously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...LITTLE MAN FROM BROOKLYN, by St. Clair McKelway. The incredible life of Stanley Clifford Weyman, who cracked the upper crust by posing at various times as U.S. Consul General to Algiers, a physician and a French naval officer...
...recognize vibrating patterns, he built the first model of his machine. Next, he and two other researchers at Stanford, James D. Meindl and James C. Bliss, made the probe sensitive to the differences in such similar-shaped letters as lower case a, e, and o, and also adjustable for various print sizes. The portable, battery-operated machine was then given to Candy for testing at home...
Critics, though, tend to forget the many benefits he has staged for various causes, ranging from the People's Park Bail Fund to the Episcopal Church. He has also made numerous interest-free loans to musicians and he gives intense loyalty to those who work for him. "If I have an act I think is good but that hasn't made it yet," he says, "I put it on a bill with the Who or the Jefferson Airplane. This approach to my business has gotten me a good reputation nationwide, but here in San Francisco the kids...
Beyond these highly visible changes-and probably more important than them-is a shift in the composition of the population of Cambridge. In recent years, young professional people, students from various Boston universities, and enthusiasts of various varieties of hip culture have flocked to the City-attracted to it by the presence of the universities...
...class of 1928, who met with us afterward in the bar of the Ritz in Boston, where we took him to assuage our anguish and his thirst. He was a very good ally, and I said that I would go out on a Middle Western and Eastern tour of various friends of the Harvard Library to raise the money, if he would go with...