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Although officials said last month that Dunster, Eliot, and Kirkland were all behind schedule in phone work, working jacks are missing from only 20 rooms, 15 of them in Dunster, according to Paul M. Conway, director of operations for the Harvard telecommunications office...
Victoria Station, the opening skit, is an edgy conversation between a perplexed London taxi-fleet dispatcher and a maddeningly vague, or vaguely mad, cab driver (Kevin Conway). One for the Road, set in an unidentified police state, offers the horrific spectacle of the torturer as business executive, bantering with his victims as he sends them off to be flogged, raped or killed. In A Kind of Alaska, a middle-aged woman (Dianne Wiest) awakes from a 29-year siege of sleeping sickness to confront a reality at pathetic odds with her memories and hallucinations. Dispatcher, torture victim, woman, all struggle...
...fall of 1984, many of Cornell University's Computer Sciences courses will be taught on the new Macintoshes, according to a story in the Cornell Daily Sun Furthermore, purchases of the Macintosh are expected to greatly alleviate pressure on the university's public terminals, said Richard W. Conway, computer science professor at Cornell...
...utility executives question the future of nuclear power in the U.S. "Some days I think I may be building the last nuclear plant that's going to be built for a while," says R.E. Conway, the senior vice president of Georgia Power. "They are just too expensive for a company like us to construct any more." Georgia Power's Plant Vogtle, a two-unit facility now more than 50% complete, is expected to come on line at ten times its original price tag of $660 million. For many utilities, nuclear plants are far too costly. The huge, quasi-governmental Tennessee...
...student of Afro-American history I find Mr. Conway's short-sighted patemalism disturbingly reminiscent of that of many Northern whites of the early nineteenth century. Claiming to represent the interests of Black people, these men fought the abolition of slavery because they felt that the resulting freedmen would be worse off than they had been as slaves. The parallel becomes still more striking when one remembers that in the meantime, ex-slaves such as Frederick Douglass fought vehemently for abolition. Just as these Northern whites chose to ignore Douglass (no doubt feeling that they knew better than...