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...speed computer that printed its answers with electrically charged pins instead of solid typeface. When he found that the blind could be taught to recognize vibrating patterns, he built the first model of his machine. Next, he and two other researchers at Stanford, James D. Meindl and James C. Bliss, made the probe sensitive to the differences in such similar-shaped letters as lower case a, e, and o, and also adjustable for various print sizes. The portable, battery-operated machine was then given to Candy for testing at home...
...haven't had this much fun since my third-grade picnic." If Seaver's acquisition was fortuitous, Koosman's was truly preposterous. Who but the Mets would act on a tip from one of their stadium ushers? The usher's son, who caught for an Army nine at Fort Bliss, Texas, wondered whether the Mets might be interested in the team's pitcher, who had won 20 games, lost only three and averaged 18 strikeouts a game. The Mets were interested in anyone who even sounded that good. Koosman was signed and packed off to the minors in 1965. There...
...power of his pocketbook. The new feminism that underlies a soppy little fable called Thank You All Very Much derives from the praying mantis. Man-a brief biological interlude-is to be casually discarded after procreative use. A girl can have her baby and keep it in single bliss. Sufficient unto the self is the self...
...departed among that select company--which includes such noble figures as Bliss Perry, Theodore Spencer, Zechariah Chafee, Perry Miller, and Raphael Demos--was increased by one with the death last Friday of Professor G. Wallace Woodworth. He was--and preferred to be--known, however, simply as "Woody," just as another Harvard giant, Charles T. Copeland, had been universally known to earlier generations as "Copey...
...Library, which was given to the University in 1940 by Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Bliss, contains their collection of objects d'art and some 73,000 volumes and 35,000 photographs of Byzantine...