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...Into the windowless antechamber walks Baird Professor of Science Dudley R. Herschbach, just finished with his early morning freshman Chemistry 7 lecture. Hershbach, Harvard's most active professor in the drive to "humanize" science curricula, throws a pointed question at the unsuspecting Rosovsky...
During the 13-week-long battle, Hartley directed or approved every strategic move. He met daily at company headquarters in Los Angeles with his staff, lawyers and investment bankers in a 15- by 20-ft. windowless room furnished with a metal table and chairs and several chalkboards. "We would work for six to 15 hours at a time. Then Hartley would pop in and demand to know what we'd come up with," said one participant. After his victory, Hartley could scarcely conceal his glee: "This thing is going to keep me busy on the lecture circuit for years...
...will be heavily outnumbered by the 12,000 print and TV journalists expected to attend). Delegates will be escorted by the California Highway Patrol from San Francisco International Airport to their hotels, and they will be hauled to the Moscone Center aboard buses. Inside the mostly underground and mostly windowless center, the delegates will be under watchful eyes too. Taking no chances on a surprise insurrection, the Mondale forces plan to put a staggering total of 600 to 700 whips on the floor, each relaying the word from Mondale headquarters to a handful of delegates...
SITE's first real commission was the renovation of a Best Products Co. showroom in Richmond in 1971. Best Products is the largest U.S. catalogue showroom merchandiser, with a network of sales outlets that are essentially windowless brick boxes. In Richmond, SITE added a new façade that incongruously and dramatically seemed to be peeling...
...windowless room deep in a cinderblock office structure, 15 executives are learning how to use a personal computer. Prodded by two instructors, the pupils thumb through looseleaf training manuals, trying to find the exact combination of letters and numbers that will make the finicky machines do their bidding. There is a certain amount of head scratching and muttering. Complains one frustrated novice: "I run a $300 million division on a daily basis, and I can't find the A on the keyboard...