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...period which is now beginning for higher education poses a formidable array of difficult problems for Harvard (though this in itself is nothing new). I have learned in twenty-five years as a college president-sixteen of them here-that a considerable interval (not uncommonly something like ten years) is required in the administration of a university between the undertaking of a major project and its achievement. In the light of these considerations it seems to me, as I indicated to you last year, that the next change in presidents of Harvard should occur fairly soon, preferably near the beginning...
...rich can earn more with their money than can citizens of modest means. Banks and S & Ls were empowered to pay up to 7½% interest on certificates of deposit of $100,000 or more held for a year or longer. For smaller sums, the Government authorized a complex array of rates varying from...
...President the right to appeal for unity on an issue that he feels is dangerously divisive without contending with a formidable array of soothsayers (all, strangely enough, with one voice) waiting to tell the populace to disregard the President and listen to them instead...
...Surveyor 3, the unmanned moon probe that soft-landed on the lunar surface April 19. 1967. He and Bean would stroll for as long as 74 hours on the moon and collect up to 75 lbs. of lunar rock. Most important, Apollo 12 would leave behind a more sophisticated array of sensitive instruments than those left by Apollo 11. Powered by a nuclear generator, the Apollo 12 package would give scientists their first continuously operating observatory on another world. And there was an additional bonus: the first color telecasts from the surface of the moon...
...enmesh would-be muggers, skis with wheels for schussing on dry land, a timer that rations children's television viewing, tongs that carry melons without bruising them, and a keyless electronic lock that opens when hidden pressure points are pushed. There is even an ingenious array of glass tubes that waters indoor plants while a householder is away: Such an exhibit would have stirred little interest among major companies a few years ago, but this display attracted representatives of some of the nation's largest firms; they could not afford to stay away...