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...Stanford coding system was cracked by Adi Shamir, 30, an Israeli expert in the branch of mathematics known as complexity theory. Shamir was at M.I.T. in the late '70s as an associate professor of mathematics, and in fact helped write the M.I.T. code that competes head-on with Stanford's. Last spring, back in his spartan, second-floor office in the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, the lean, blue-jeaned mathematician settled the old wager: he found a way to unravel the original Stanford system. The code Shamir broke after four years of hard work...
...even more so now." After the 3½-hour concert, the Andalusian-born Segovia, 85, signed autographs with the help of his son Carlos Andrés, 8. Then, accompanied by his third wife Emilia, 38, Segovia flung a Spanish cape around his shoulders and bid the crowd adi...
DIED. Adolf ("Adi") Dassler, 77, sports shoe mogul from whose name came the title of his brand-Adidas; of a heart attack; in Herzogenaurach, West Germany. Dassler and his brother entered the shoe business in 1920, but split after World War II to form fiercely competing firms. With some $700 million in sales yearly, Adidas leads the field in athletic footwear; his brother's company, Puma, is a distant second...
Died. William H. Olson, 25, Cornell graduate ('65) and Peace Corpsman since last June who taught science in the Ethiopian village of Adi Ugri; after being attacked by a crocodile while standing waist-deep in the muddy Baro River near Gambela, Ethiopia. Five fellow corpsmen heard Olson shout and saw the beast pull him under; next day police found and shot the crocodile...
Nepal became a stronghold of late Buddhism and its imagery when it retreated from Islam, which swept through India during the 12th century. Sequestered in the Himalayas, the religion existed in one of its headiest forms short of Zen-Tantric Buddhism. Its credo begins with the Adi-Buddha, a primordial god of ultimate beauty...