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3 picks · 1953–1975

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ALL-VOLUNTEER-II
a reporter at large ·

A REPORTER AT LARGE about the new all-volunteer Army. Writer talks to Prof. Charles Moskos, Jr., chairman of the Dept. of Sociology at Northwestern …

QUIET MAN
profiles ·

PROFILE of Cyril M. Harris, Columbia U. professor, acoustics consultant & noise-control expert. Born in Detroit in 1917, raised in California, he has lived…

PIANO MAN.
profiles ·

PROFILE of William Hupfer, tone regulator of Steinway pianos, who has worked at every job a piano mechanic can hold. Tone regulating is more difficult than…