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...suspense continued to build. Will U.S. and Soviet negotiators meet across felt-covered tables in Vienna next September, a mere two months before American voters choose a President? If they do, the most acrimonious breakdown in nuclear-arms-control talks between the superpowers in 15 years could be at an end, and one of the Democrats' most formidable campaign complaints about Ronald Reagan will be weakened. If they do not, the political argument will focus on who should bear most of the blame...
...ALICE James not been born into the family of intellectuals that she was her life would be of little interest to the literary public. When she died at the age of 41, she had been an invalid since her first nervous breakdown at 19, and her only accomplishment was the diary which she had dept for the last three years of her life...
...dangerous breakdown of the most vital negotiations of our time...
...important than strategic arms control, the cooperative effort by which these otherwise competing superpowers try to regulate their rivalry and keep it from getting out of hand. Of all the ways in which Soviet-U.S. relations have declined over the past year, none is more ominous than the breakdown in strategic arms control. Of all the challenges facing both leaderships in the months and years ahead, the resumption of arms control is the most vital...
...desks of high-tech executives to a nationwide trend mapped in stone. A sixty-nine digit number--the last in a century-old list of seemingly unfactorable numbers composed by a famous French mathematician--was broken down by a Cray supercomputer. The implications of this are revolutionary. While the breakdown of the number, more simply known as 2251-1, utilized only a sleek algorithm and no revolutionary advances, it signaled the ever-growing importance of ultra-sophisticated computers...