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Bowen and Friedrich relied on contributions from Boston Bureau Chief Robert Ajemian (Harvard), Correspondent Joelle Attinger (Wellesley) and Harvard Senior Robert Cunha. They were also assisted by Reporter-Researchers John Gallagher (Fordham), Val Castronovo (Vassar), Nancy Gibbs (Yale) and Zona Sparks (University of Chicago). Senior Editor Christopher Porterfield, a Yale graduate who edited the cover stories, discounts any talk of brisk competition between Harvard and his alma mater. Says Porterfield: "The Macy's-Gimbels rivalry thing is a big bore. There is more kinship between Harvard and Yale than between Harvard and any other university. In these days when others...
Aboard the Constitution, the Navy's oldest commissioned warship, the Navy's oldest officer on active duty retired last week. In 1943 Grace Murray Hopper, then an associate professor of mathematics at Vassar College, joined the reserves, and while developing an early computer program, coined one of computerese's most useful terms when she found a moth in the machine. "From then on," she recalled, "whenever anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it." After the war, told she was too old for active duty, she went to work on UNIVAC, the first large commercial...
...many advertisers tend to include their year of graduation. In a given issue, don't be surprised to find companionship sought by Radcliffe '45, Harvard '68 and Harvard-Radcliffe '59. Those who don't attach any special meaning to the word "veritas" are described as Yale Ph.D, MIT grad, Vassar '54, or Wellesley woman. The emphasis is clearly on degree, not sex appeal...
Creighton's set-ups already exist at Columbia University's Herman Institute for Advanced Study of the Soviet Union, at Vassar College, the University of Iowa, and the University of Arizona, according to Creighton telecommunications professor Leland E. Lubbers...
Valerie Coel, of Lexington, Ma., came to MIT with excellent credentials: a B.S. from Vassar, an I.Q. of 163, as well as a membership in Mensa, the international "genius society...