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...into electrical impulses and feeds them through the implanted wires into the auditory nerve. Six of the wires are implanted in those areas of the cochlea that would normally transmit different frequencies, from high to low. The remaining two wires are grounded to muscle tissue to complete the electrical circuit. Says Parkin: "It's like taking the cochlea outside the head and putting it on your belt...
This is a hot week on the Harvard Lecture circuit--that is if you're interested in nuclear weapons, immigration or the Caribbean. Heading the ticket at the Forum at the Institute of Politics is Notre Dame President and general academic big-wig the Rev. Theodore Hesburgh, speaking on "Science, Religion, and the Nuclear Menace" also at the K-School tonight in an adjoining room is Sen. Alan Simpson (R-Wyo.), one of the chief proponents of immigration reform in recent years, speaking on, you guessed it. "The Politics of Immigration Reform"....another big-shot coming to Harvard this week...
...should be a welcome relief after Washington's grueling pace. Feldstein usually gets up at 6:15 and drives his 1976 Volvo from the family's rented town house in Georgetown to his office in the Old Executive Office Building. He is rarely on the cocktail-party circuit. Says his wife Kathleen: "We only go to places where we can really talk to people...
That he was, and for him the World Cup circuit stretched out far ahead. As he left Sarajevo for Copper Mountain, Colo., to train for a downhill next week, he had nothing unkind to say about anyone, not even Klammer. But, of course, he did have a breezy last word. "I could be in this game a long time now." -By John Skow...
...Bigger Thomas, in the film version of Native Son. Taken together, this body of film is a priceless record of the styles and manners, aspirations and attitudes of black America between 1920 and 1950, when these little pictures (they usually cost about $20,000) made their way along the circuit of more than 600 theaters, segregated either formally or de facto, that served the black community...