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...years she did the kind of mind-numbing mathematical drudgery--punching numbers into a mechanical calculator and copying down the results--that in those days was measured in "girl hours." Then she was invited by the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School of Electrical Engineering to help J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly put the finishing touches on a new kind of computing device called ENIAC (for Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer). That machine and its descendants were destined not only to make her old job obsolete but to change the world profoundly...
...comfortable Senate seat because he imagined the work might be more restful than politics. "As Governor of Kentucky," says Chandler, 85, "I signed 36 death warrants. Two of them were hanged for rape in the courthouse yard." But as he was soon to learn-and as Ford Frick, Spike Eckert and Bowie Kuhn all discovered in turn-the commissioner's job is not unlike presiding at such an occasion while being the object of the exercise at the same time...
This has been the tone of every turnover since. In 1969, when the owners kindly excused General Eckert ("the unknown soldier"), they hired their own lawyer...
...restore righteousness. His law was arbitrary and final. Kuhn greatly admired Landis. The judge's successor, Albert B. ("Happy") Chandler, was a posturing "ol' podner." The man who followed Chandler, Ford Frick, was a reluctant leader hesitant to decide anything. Next came General William D. Eckert, "the unknown soldier," a strategic and forlorn disaster...
...something," said Sergeant L.P. Eckert, "and sure enough it was the bear." The animal, which disappeared again, was Boo-Boo, the 20-month-old, 250-lb. black bear cub that belongs to Broadcaster-Sportsman Ted Turner, 43. Boo-Boo had escaped from the pen she shares with Yogi, the other bear that Turner keeps for his children on their 5,000-acre South Carolina plantation. Away on business, Turner has missed the ensuing ten-day bear hunt, which by week's end had resulted in only two uneventful sightings. Says Johnny Godley, Turner's plantation manager, about...