Word: systemization
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...system struck back last week. Having obtained the names of a few students who planned to study for their exams, the Department of Buildings and Grounds moved swiftly: teams of painters were dispatched to the students' bathrooms. Despite piteous scenes as undergraduates, enfeebled by weeks of reading period, tried to defend their commodes, work began...
...action was an unqualified success. Few of the sleepless victims passed their next exams. Temporarily the system could relax. Yesterday, however, disturbing reports reached the central office that one of the fluorescent lights in Lamont had stopped buzzing...
...play for the smaller catch, the Club's secretary, Peter J. Enderlin '61 is investigating an electronic method in which fish are attracted by electrical impulse. Discovered by a German scientist named Kreutzer, to whom Enderlin has written for advice, the system utilizes the finding that fish emit and are attracted by characteristic signals, similar to bird calls. The Club hopes to land tuna by this method...
...many sources. Besides making the heavy first-stage booster, Thiokol may also get the contract for the second-stage booster. The third stage, which has yet to reach final design, will probably be made by Hercules Powder Co. at Bacchus, 15 miles southwest of Salt Lake City. The guidance system, made by North American Aviation, Inc. (it recently got a $115 million contract), will be shipped in from California. Boeing Airplane Co. will put together the three stages and install the guidance system in the completed missile at Hill Air Force Base near Ogden. By 1963, the target date...
...long-term bonds by gimmicks, meaning discounts, or by trying to force the Federal Reserve to support the market. They argue that this is simply funny-money financing. By supporting Treasury bonds, the Fed would, in effect, be pumping money into the economy, would lose control over the monetary system and take the U.S. down the road to real inflation. Says FRB Chairman William McChesney Martin: "The world now knows that, as the night follows the day, inflation follows any effort to keep interest rates low through money creation...