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...Thomas Alva Edison is placed apart from the mainstream of history. He invented the light bulb and the phonograph, improved the telegraph, telephone and movie projector, and developed a system for distributing electrical power to homes and businesses over broad areas. But most who survey American history view Edison as an eccentric anomaly, and leave his life and work to the historians of wizardry or of science. Conventional histories deal with technological development as though it were an independent force, growing without any influence from the men who in fact produced it. But to ignore an inventor as part...
Restic spent three years at Colgate, from 1959 to 1961, as first assistant and offensive coordinator under head coach Alva Kelly, after three years as an assistant coach at Brown. He served as a coach for the Hamilton Tiger Cats of the Canadian Football League from 1962 to 1970, when the team won the Eastern Divison CFL championship...
...after a decade of research (much of it carried out while his wife Alva was Swedish Ambassador to India), he published what he called his "labor of love." Asian Drama: An Inquiry Into the Poverty of Nations pointed up, in 2,500 pages, the economic, political and social factors that impede progress in the world's most populous area. An apostle of thoroughgoing Swedish-style planning, Myrdal is a socialist who became in the late 1960s-though professing a sincere affection...
Derek Curtis Bok, 44, president of Harvard, is a scion of the Curtis publishing family and son-in-law of Swedish Sociologists Gunnar and Alva Myrdal. Bok graduated from Stanford and Harvard Law, studied in Paris as a Fulbright scholar, collected a graduate economics degree from George Washington University. A top labor-law specialist, he was named dean of Harvard Law in 1968, president of the university three years later. Democrat Bok helped organize opposition to Harrold Carswell's Supreme Court nomination, was among the academicians who went to Washington to protest the 1970 Cambodia invasion...
Banker Bruce Fine, Businessman Alva T. Bonda, Lawyer Richard Miller and Mogul Corp. President C. Carlisle Tippit seem to abandon all fiscal caution when it comes to Cleveland's basketball, baseball and hockey clubs. In the past five years each man has invested from $200,000 to $1 million in one or more of the teams. And they are not alone. "Anybody who invests in sports for profit is out of his head," says Bonda. He should know, having once lost $400,000 in a now defunct soccer team. "The only reason to do it," he says...