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DIED. SEYMOUR CRAY, 71, of injuries resulting from a car crash; in Colorado Springs, Colorado. A brilliant and legendarily eccentric electronics engineer who put together an automatic telegraph machine when he was 10 years old, Cray built in the 1960s what many consider the world's first supercomputers. Not all his work was as constructive: for many years he built a new sailboat every winter and burned it, inexplicably, every fall...
While this year's returns are above par, HMC's past performance has been mixed. From 1974, when HMC was started as a wholly-owned Harvard subsidiary, to 1986, HMC turned a $1.1 billion endowment into $4.6 billion--not too shabby. HMC avoided the 1987 stock market crash, but missed the boom which followed it as well. Over the period from June 1985 to June 1995, Harvard's annual return was only 13 percent. The Wall Street Journal has commented, "Any schmo could easily have beaten that simply plunking cash down into a lowcost mutual fund that mimics the behavior...
AILING. SEYMOUR CRAY, 71, the Thomas Edison of the supercomputer; after suffering a broken neck and severe head injuries in a highway crash; in Colorado Springs, Colorado...
ATLANTA: Conventional wisdom holds that the safest time to fly is right after a plane crash raises concerns over safety. That and an astonishingly low $19 one-way airfare on some routes is what company officials hope will bring travelers back to ValuJet. The airline began operations again today, 15 weeks after flights were suspended June 17th in the aftermath of the May plane crash in the Everglades that that killed all 110 people aboard. After a lengthy review, ValuJet persuaded the Federal Aviation Administration its planes are safe. Not everyone is convinced. The association of Flight Attendants union filed...