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...breakthroughs and building on one an other's work, traded programs much as Little Leaguers swap baseball cards. One of the most popular titles was MODEM, a 1977 program that allowed personal-computer owners to send programming instructions to one another by telephone. Its author, IBM Engineer Ward Christensen, takes pride in never having profited from his labor of love. Says he: "People sometimes send me money out of the blue, but I always send it back...
...University Librarian. Handlin moved over to the Loeb University chair, replacing retiring Law School eminence grise, Archibald Cox '34. Two other scholars also nabbed for university chairs, the highest honor Harvard can bestow on its professors: outgoing Dean of the Faculty Henry Resovsky and Business School teaching whiz Roland Christensen...
ARMS began to attract attention when interest rates started rising in the late 1970s. A year ago, an increasing number of home buyers viewed the ARM as the niftiest invention since aluminum siding. In November 1982, Houstonites Sheila and Bert Christensen would have been unable to afford their four-bedroom house at the daunting 15% going rate for a conventional mortgage. But with an ARM, the computer repairman and his wife paid an initial rate of just 11⅞% on their $85,000 home. Now they wish they had never heard of ARMS. Last January their lender boosted the rate...
...programs of the Harvard-Danforth Center are in the enviable and powerful position of taking for granted these assumptions--about control and responsibility and effectiveness. You have to understand the persuasive power of not needing to assert that something matters. It's part of the subtle power of Professor Christensen's case method. He likes to quote the Quaker saying, "God is in the details." If in the details, then in the whole enterprise. The stakes are high in every case he uses, and the teachers in his class are waving their arms to get air time...
...Rams was "the new Marcus Allen," and the old one registered just one 100-yd. rushing game all season until the playoffs. With breezy 121-and 154-yd. games against Pittsburgh and Seattle in the tournament, Allen and the Raiders are on a sprint. Plunkett throws downfield mostly to Christensen or Cliff Branch. But when the Seahawks concentrated on those two, Malcolm Barnwell caught 100-yds.' worth of passes in the first half alone...