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...first computer zealots of the early 1970s. To "gronk out," for example, means to go to sleep; to "frobnicate" or "frob" means to fiddle with the controls of a computer. Hackerese changes along with computer technology; even the term hacker is under revisionist pressure. At Carnegie-Mellon, some hackers contend that "wizard" is a more appropriate moniker for those adept at programming...
...protests have highlighted a growing impatience with the government's methods, all the more pronounced because students were among the most jubilant celebrators when the Socialists came to power in 1981. Although the protesters have remained studiously apolitical, they contend, with some justification, that the government failed to inform or consult the public before announcing the Savary plan. Comparisons with 1968 may as yet be overblown, but the message of the present unrest is no less forceful or urgent...
...addition, three historians claimed last week that they had been shown, months or years ago, apparently spurious Hitler-related items that they now contend came from Stern's supposedly top-secret discovery. Joachim Fest, writer of book and film biographies of Hitler and a co-publisher of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, says, "A not insignificant part of what I was shown was convincing, but doubt won out." Irving said he had seen what he calls a forged letter, supposedly written to Hitler by his Deputy Chancellor Rudolf Hess. Professor Eberhard Jäckel of Stuttgart University lost interest...
...that's what concerns Harper. She'll have to contend with Crimson All-Americans Francesca DenHartog and Maureen Finn, the ever-consistent Jennifer White and the ever-improving Maggie Hart, who together have combined for 145 of Harvard's 192 goals this year...
...Craig Stadler (1982 Masters), Ray Floyd (1982 P.G.A.) and Tom Watson (1982 U.S. and British Opens), Severiano Ballesteros had the defenders of all the major golf championships to contend with last week in the final round of the 1983 Masters. "They are one of the best three," agreed the adventurous Spaniard, 26, who showed he is one of the best himself, easily winning his second Masters championship in four years. That is, if the following can be termed easy...