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...issue of Wednesday, May 4th, The Boston Globe printed a front-page account of Professor John K. Fairbank's valedictory lecture in History 1711. Since the Globe story impugned both my competence as a slide-projector operator and my loyalty to Chairman Fairbank--and since I am told that some members of the Harvard community read the Globe--I would be grateful to the Crimson for printing my heartfelt rebuttal...
...reporter got the sheep-dung story all wrong. What had happened, back in 1958, related to my then lofty position of audio-visual aide in Fairbank's famous course, "Rice Paddies." That meant that I ran the slide projector in the last ten minutes of each lecture. Fairbank would give me a box of slides he had selected and arranged; I would then show them...
With the long-heralded Polavision system, Polaroid moves into a market whose potential has been limited by all the fuss attending conventional home movies: the wait for an exposed reel to come back from the developer, setting up a projector and screen, threading film, dimming lights, pulling everyone away from the television set long enough to watch, then putting everything away again. When compared with sales in the giant amateur-still-photography market, home movie sales are small change; annual camera sales have declined from about 1 million units in 19-72 to around 650,000 last year. But Land...
...faulty slide projector caused a fire on the fourth floor of the Biological Laboratories last night, a spokesman for the Cambridge Fire Department said yesterday...
...colts do -as a three-year-old. By the time he was twelve, he was perched beside the starting gates, studying how jockeys get away on the break. After he decided to become a rider, Steve and his father collected race films, endlessly rerunning them on a borrowed projector, to dissect the strategies of dozens of jockeys. Says Steve: "I give my father credit for everything I have learned. The basic things came from him: how to get a good seat and hands, pace, how to switch the stick in one stride." While dismounted, he practiced his whip technique...