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...gets credit for coining the name of a ubiquitous computer phenomenon: the bug. In August 1945, while she and some associates were working at Harvard on an experimental machine called the Mark I, a circuit malfunctioned. A researcher using tweezers located and removed the problem: a 2-in. long moth. Hopper taped the offending insect into her logbook. Says she: "From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs...
...Funseth has also been ill but playing through his worries on the senior tour. In 17 years on the regular circuit, this charming pessimist won just three tournaments but accumulated $646,811. Only a few play for history; the rest play for money. Last year he turned 50 and won $120,366, but Funseth's measure of a year is no longer cash. "It has been a blessing to play," he says...
President Bok has also traveled on the award circuit, picking up the first C. Clyde Ferguson Award. Bok won the award--named after the prominent Black law professor who died last year--for his "extraordinary effort and significant contribution toward enhancing the diversity of the students, faculty, and staff of Harvard University...
...lecture circuit this month... A. Leon judge of the U.S. Third-Circuit Court of Appeal, will open the 1984 W.E.B. DuBois Lectures on April 9 in Boylston Auditorium. The five-part lecture series, which will conclude in October, will cover "The Legitimization of Racism". . mean while tonight the Saudi Arabian Ambassador to the United Status. Prince Bandar Bin Sultan, the Kennedy School Forum on "Peace in the Middle East...
SENTENCED. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., 30, arrested last September for possessing two-tenths of a gram of heroin; to two years of probation, continued drug treatments and 1,500 hours of community service; in Rapid City, S. Dak. The suspended sentence, Circuit Judge Marshall Young told Kennedy, was standard for such a first offense and had "nothing to do with your name...