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Last week, after months of negotiations, the two sides reached a landmark settlement. The Community suspended its case, and IBM agreed to make available information about its computers to enable rival companies to design equipment that can be linked to the System/370. The firm will disclose technical standards for new System/370 models within four months after they are announced, and it will publish an expanded manual of the system's communication codes...
Included in the original assignment were three Communist countries, the Soviet Union, East Germany and Cuba, which have decided since May to sit out the Games. Leifer had the notion that Cuba's "landmark" was President Fidel Castro, who obligingly posed with the island's superheavyweight boxer, Teófilo Stevenson. Afterward, when Leifer asked Castro to autograph a picture from an earlier session, the President's arm was so sore from holding Stevenson's hand aloft in a victory salute that he could barely write. The arm was not too sore, however, to offer Leifer...
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Riesman, who did not arrive at Harvard until 1958, more than five years after the worst of the McCarthy period, has done landmark studies of education and the educational atmosphere at Harvard. He pointed out that McCarthy trained his guns on Harvard with a vengeance second only to those he reserved for "the establishment" stretching along the Potomac River. In 1953, McCarthy would bring his hearing committee proceedings to Boston to challenge Harvard professors, and later in the year he accused then-President Nathan M. Pusey '28 of producing a "Red-Mess" in Cambridge...
...concept on campus: fun. The fieldhouse has been refurbished. Student theater and music groups are flourishing. A winter carnival is now established as an annual event. Called Kuvia-sungnerk, an Eskimo word for happiness, the festival this year included a pajama brunch and a three-mile walk to a landmark spot along the Lake Michigan shore known as "the Point." Two weeks ago, the deans inaugurated a student-faculty contest day, featuring softball games at which President Gray threw out the first ball...