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...much of M.I.T.'s computer activity involves students' processing individual research data on the machines. At Texas A. & M., students drop their computer data at a window, walk half a block to find the answers waiting on a table-and find the process so pleasant that they dub these evening sessions "happy hours...
...room in a grey, womanless house. The father (Paul Rogers) is a bull walrus spuming through yellowed tusks against the dying of his authority. The older brother, Lenny (Ian Holm), is a dapper spiv of a pimp with a lively, corrupt intelligence. Joey (Terence Rigby), the younger, is a dub of a prizefighter, a would-be champion with a chimpanzee brain...
Cocktail Training. The Point is still no paradise, but its new concern for student comfort has led some cadets to dub the place, in jest, "Hilton on the Hudson." In the new dorms, spring mattresses have replaced stuffed cotton bedding, and bureaus have pushed out steel lockers. Morning coffee is served between classes, and some instructors even invite cadets to their quarters for evening pizza and beer. Even plebes can date and dance on the post every fall weekend. Seniors can sip cocktails in the officers' club, a privilege that the Army rationalizes as "the social training...
...inevitable on a noncommercial TV show budgeted so low that there was only one rehearsal before taping, where volunteers had to be recruited to wash dishes, and the food sometimes had to be auctioned off to the audience afterward to cover expenses. Obviously, the station could not afford to dub the flubs even if it wanted to. The thing is, it didn't. Seeing Julia Child goof can only make viewers less fearful of disasters in their own kitchens. Says the producer, Ruth Lockwood: "We wanted to let Julia be herself at any cost...
...income in the U.S.; yet it ranks 48th in its per capita support of higher education, ahead of only Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. While most states send only about 20% of their students to colleges in other states, New Jersey exports 55% of its high school graduates-leading educators to dub New Jersey "The Cuckoo State," after the bird that plants its eggs in other nests to hatch...