Word: dixons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Florida, the machine suddenly hit itself so hard that it sheared off its arm. Says John Dixon, a computer scientist working on the Navy's underwater explorer: "We humans have been manipulating things ever since we were children, so we're extremely good at it. But if you analyze everything that's going on when you do a simple thing like picking up an object, it's really very complicated." Adds David Grossman, I.B.M.'s manager of automation research: "It's like trying to write down how to tie a shoe...
Ironically, the most highly-touted event of the dual meet, the match-up of thinclad Adam Dixon with Bruin Osman Lake in the 1500 and 800 meter events, proved anti-climatic...
...Lake moved out two yards ahead of the pack early on, proceeding to box in the other runners and establish a snailish 2:80 pace at mid-point. Annoyed by his opponent's unwillingness to push, Dixon pulled out 15 yards ahead when the gun sounded for the bell lap and Lake's attempt to repeat his just-by-an-inch defeat of Dixon two years ago collapsed abysmally...
...tape, Dixon coasted in with ease, with a two-and-one-half-second lead over the second-place finisher, and a 3:55.6 time. Lake dropped far back and did not place. Afterward, Lake, who many consider one of the East's premier runners, collapsed in exhaustion on the inside margin of the track...
Following the race, Dixon was piqued at the results. "I must say I'd been looking forward to this opportunity. It was a tactical race which was a waste of time. We raced against each other so we could push. Then he went out and pulled that." Dixon then said, "He's certainly got the stuff," but noted that Lake's problem lay in his lack of drive...