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...firm (and eighth largest industrial company in the U.S., with earnings of more than $3 billion in 1982), International Business Machines produces some 65% of the country's mainframe business computers and an estimated 62% of those sold worldwide. But in one area IBM had long been conspicuously absent. Except for a brief, abortive fling in the mid-1970s at selling a small desktop machine called the model 5100 (cost: up to nearly $20,000), the corporation left the personal computer field to upstart firms like Apple and Tandy...
...clock Sister Emmanuelle welcomes 40 youngsters who attend school at her hut. She is distressed that ten students are absent; undoubtedly they are out working with their parents in the garbage heap. She will visit them later that day with lessons. In this environment of waste and disease, where she has worked for ten years, Sister Emmanuelle endlessly preaches the need for cleanliness, and the children at school are neatly dressed...
Kistiakowsky: No...I was so focused on military technology that political thinking was just completely absent. I wanted to win the war and win it soonest...
...Notably absent from Wednesday's show-down was Carrabino, who reinsured his back after netting a game-high 18 points in Harvard's 45-44 comeback triumph at UMass Saturday, Since Sunday, he's been occupying a Stillman bed, not roaming a hardwood court...
Among modern leaders, Muammar Gaddafi is called a man of simple tastes who spends days alone in meditation on the desert, when he is not threatening to blow up the world. What Indira Gandhi does for fun is not generally known. As for the absent Idi Amin, his pastimes were said to run to the wild side, what with his peculiar way of making enemies an internal issue. Amin has been known to show a light heart, however, and has played the accordion at dances. It would be a sad end to so carefree a hobby if Amin were...