Word: techs
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Edward W. Averill '56, a philosophy professor at Texas Tech University, was one of the organizers of the Social Democratic Forum at Harvard, an effort to bring forward different points of view for discussion of issues that weren't ordinarily presented in classrooms. He says a speech given by a reporter active in the civil rights movement in the South drew an audience of more than...
Terry Bradshaw, the man Thomas "Hollywood" Henderson said could not spell the word "cat" if you spotted him the "c" and the "a," will receive an honorary doctorate in the humanities from his almost mater, Louisiana Tech, on Saturday. The presentation will take place at the school's commencement ceremonies at Aillet Stadium...
Kate Edmund's set is the other unalloyed success of the evening. A.R.T. subscribers horrified at the high-tech circus of Lulu or put off by the gloomy Brechtian neon of Seven Deadly Sins earlier this year will be happy to hear that Figaro is staged straight, with period costumes by Rita Ryack. But the traditional mise-en-scene does not petrify the show. Edmunds has placed the Countess's bedroom, the courtroom, and the other havens of aristocracy underneath a patently fake proscenium, upstage; in the wings, stretching around the audience are the kitchens, dressing rooms and lofts...
...must sign up for at least a 60-day wait at major audio outlets. In the Boston area, the waiting period can be up to 30 days, and some dealers require the full locally discounted price of $170 to reserve the mini-Mozart machine. Says Harvard Square's Tech Hi-Fi Sound Consultant Douglas Corley: "Our sales depend only on how fast they can build them." Some 30 other manufacturers have rushed more than 50 competing models onto the market, ranging from $60 to $300. Some units, like the KLH Solo and Toshiba KT-52, have FM stereo radios...
...Texas electronics firm recently hired a Georgia executive who falsely claimed degrees from Georgia Tech and the Harvard Business School. Asks John Kelly, personnel director of Tenneco, a Houston-based oil company: "What do you do when someone is doing a good job and you've found a fabrication? If he is finding oil, do you fire...