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...this isn't the American way, you tell me what is." Barker's postprison rehabilitation program is a central Florida housing project he has agreed to promote along with his break-in partners Eugenic Martinez and Virgilio Gonzalez. The project, dubbed Watergate Hills, is a brainchild of Florida Builder John Priestes, who himself just ended a six-month stint in the slammer for FHA influence buying. The foursome hope to make $7 million to $9 million from the 600-unit complex, but last week their profit margin was shaved when thieves relieved on-site construction trailers...
...Brainchild of S.R.I. Researcher Lawrence Pinneo, a 46-year-old neurophysiologist and electronics engineer, the computer mind-reading technique is far more than a laboratory stunt. Though computers can solve extraordinarily complex problems with incredible speed, the information they digest is fed to them by such slow, cumbersome tools as typewriter keyboards or punched tapes. It is for this reason that scientists have long been tantalized by the possibility of opening up a more direct link between human and electronic brains...
...title tilt climaxed Friday and Saturday's competition, organized to raise money for the Attica Legal Defense Fund. The Harvard-Radcliffe Afro-American Cultural Center sponsored the event, which was the brainchild of senior Bob Carrington, a member of the second-place Harvard unit...
...this cheerful odium issues from Hate, Inc., the brainchild of Budd Arthur, 45, a Chicago public relations man. Since Arthur first began promoting his idea last November, more than 1,000 people of ill will have written Hate, Inc. Arthur believes not only that he can keep his volatile idea safely within farcical - and financially profitable - bounds, but also that the well-timed release of carefully nurtured hatreds can be beneficial. Says he: "The weapon is satire. If we're successful, the haters will have to find a new word." That does not mean, of course, that...
...film, The Second Gun, is the brainchild of Theodore Charach, a Los Angeles-based freelance broadcaster. Charach was at the scene of the shooting, and has been opportunistically working on his thesis ever since, despite rebuffs from state and local officials, other journalists and Kennedy friends. After finding a few backers, he and French Film Maker Gerard Alcan patched together the film, which relies essentially on these points...