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...Hammer believes Russian cyberneticists are often better logicians than their U.S. counterparts. However, they are oriented toward the oretical problems. At the big Soviet training institutes, students concentrate very little on the standard international computer language for commerce, known as COBOL (Common Business Oriented Language). Instead, they drill in ALGOL and FORTRAN, the two major scientific languages...
...celebrate. For her birthday party she took over Convention Hall so that her family of 1,700 could eat-but not drink-and make merry. Leathery Robert McLean, president of the Bulletin and of the A.P., would make a little speech. And rays from the star Algol, which take 100 light years to reach Philadelphia, would trip the switch that lighted the six-foot birthday cake...
...stars travel alone, like the sun. Many are paired, the two members revolving around each other like the ends of a spinning dumbbell. Such bright stars as Capella, Spica, Castor, Mizar (a Big Dipper star) and Algol (the "Demon Star") are binaries (doubles). Some stars occur in groups of more than two. Astronomers estimate that one-fourth or more of all the stars in the sky are doubles or multiples. Last week astronomers heard of a pair of stellar Siamese twins...
...powerful two-foot reflector is also being mounted, to be used principally in photographing an interesting class of stars known as the Algol-variables...
...Peabody '95; Marjorie, W. McKittrick '96; Prima, F. N. Balch '96; Raccoon, J. L. Stackpole, Jr., '95; Leitrim, T. J. Manahan '96; - , C. F. Lyman '96. Catboats - Calypso, George Derby '96; Pooh Pooh, J. C. Fairchild '96; Tycoon, J. L. Stackpole, Jr., '95; In It, R. B. Williams '96; Algol, J. R. Bullard '96; - , J. Sargent, Jr., '95. Steam yacht - Cora, D. U. Morris '96. Naptha launch - La Miserable, C. A. Pierce...
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