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Litchfield diagnosed Pitt as an "under-administered" campus split into 27 faculty sheikdoms. He organized an overriding ten-man "cabinet," including four vice chancellors. He launched a "vertical reorganization of the disciplines"-Litch-fieldese for uniting humanities, natural and social science as units serving all levels of the university. He...
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm. "The answer to television!" So they said when Cinerama was first shown to the public in 1952, and for a couple of years praise was supported by performance: This Is Cinerama, the first full-length picture produced in the medium, has grossed more...
Netsch tore up eight false starts before the final design came to him from one of those inspired doodles from which architects so often get ideas. He had drawn a horizontal line, then a series of near-vertical connected lines that looked a bit like the tracing of a seismograph...
The detailed results of official U.S. and British experiments with new seismic instruments have not yet been made public, but nonofficial seismologists state emphatically that earthquakes and bomb tests are quite different, that they send distinctly different wave patterns through the earth. Another important difference is that most earthquakes are...
Those years produced a great many mergers and acquisitions which papermen like to describe as "vertical integration." Where the industry was once cluttered with small companies making bags and boxes from paper that they bought from big mills, it is now dominated by a handful of large companies whose operations...