Word: debutants
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...real mindblower," declares Stewart Alsop, editor of P.C. Letter and one of 3,000 industry leaders invited to San Francisco's Davies Symphony Hall to witness the debut. The event was vintage Jobs, a sound-and-light show designed to inspire the faithful and persuade the skeptical. Among other stunts, Jobs demonstrated how the machine could run four stopwatches at once, simulate an oscilloscope and give a synthetic rendition of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech. For the most part, the crowd was duly impressed. Says Richard Shaffer, editor of Technologic Computer newsletter: "I arrived...
...fade in to Sunday, Feb. 11, 1979, the evening of the most widely publicized programming matchup in TV history. On CBS: a rare telecast of Gone With the Wind. On NBC: the TV debut of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. On ABC: a much hyped TV movie, Elvis! Some network programmers grumble that this costly confrontation amounts to a three-way kamikaze mission. But it draws the crowds. Elvis! wins a 40% share of the viewing audience, Gone With the Wind gets 36%, and Cuckoo's Nest pulls in 32%. Does that add up to more than...
...debut team match yesterday afternoon at Palmer Dixon Courts, the Harvard's women tennis team smashed Boston University, 8-1, with hard-hitting singles and doubles play...
...After a debut performance at the Harvard Field Day--an event for Harvard staff members and their families at at the Palmer-Dickson Indoor Tennis Courts, Boston Pops Assistant Conductor Harry Ellis Dickson led the musicians in their halftime performance of "Soldiers in the Field" and "Seventy-six Trombones...
...Bird, or DC-3. Slow and snub-nosed, more than 10,000 propeller-driven DC-3s made by Douglas Aircraft transported troops to victory in World War II and then re-entered civilian life to lure an entire generation to the skies. More than half a century after its debut in 1935, the Gooney Bird now has a second wind: Warren Basler, an air-freight operator and pilot in Oshkosh, Wis., has started outfitting refurbished DC-3s with turboprop-jet engines that will enable the planes to compete with modern aircraft...