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...necessary food into the proper storage spaces, and feed her program to a small computer. The experts at Stanford Research Institute visualize mechanical arms getting out the preselected food, cooking and serving it. Similarly programmed household robots would wash dishes, dispose of the garbage (onto a conveyer belt moving under the street), vacuum rugs, wash windows, cut the grass. Edward Fredkin, founder of Cambridge's Information International Inc., has already developed a computer-cum-mechanical-arm that can "see" a ball thrown its way and catch it. Soon, Fredkin expects his gadget to be able to play a mean...
King & Queen. Dejected, Rubinstein returned to Europe, and for the next four years he missed as many meals as he did notes. Nothing seemed to go right. He tried suicide, but the frazzled belt he used snapped under his weight. "The American critics were right," he admits. "In those days I dropped maybe 30% of the notes. My difficulty was that I had so much vitality and dash that I could get away with murder in Europe. But in America they felt that because they paid their money they were entitled to hear all the notes...
...Cambridge City Council faced a divided community yesterday as a variety of interests--residents, business, and M.I.T.--pleaded that they be spared from the path of the Inner Belt...
Meeting as a special committee on the Inner Belt, the Council took no official position on an alternate route for the Brookline-Elm St. location, which would uproot between 3000 and 5000 people and pass within several blocks of Central Square. However, the Cambridge Committee on the Inner Belt, a private group of planners, strongly urged that the City recommend a path along Albany and Portland Streets in East Cambridge...
Three possible routes for the Inner belt now being seriously considered: The BROOKLINE-ELM ST. route would displace between 3000 - 5000 people and pass within several blocks of Central Square. The RAILROAD and PORTLAND-ALBANY ST. lines lie further to the East. The railroad alignment is actually bordered by M.I.T. laboratories; the Portland-Albany alignment is just beyond the fringe of the campus. It was these last two routes that M.I.T. rejected last Sunday. The Department of Public Works is also known to favor the BROOKLINE-ELM ST. route...