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...case that hit an individual computer user, Technical Engineer Dick Streeter, 55, last June called in to a computer bulletin board based on Long Island, N.Y., hoping to upgrade the graphics capabilities of his IBM PC with a free program called EGA-BTR. After he transferred the software into his machine, Streeter's screen went blank. Soon after, a message flashed: "Arf, arf! Got you!" This so-called Trojan-horse program had erased nearly 900 accounting, word processing and game files that Streeter had stored in his machine. Said the dismayed engineer: "Had I logged on to the bulletin board...
...August, EGA Chief Investigator William Recktenwald, 36, an ex-cop, and Zekman, 33, were at the Mirage, serving up beer (and bribes). Also staffing the bar were Sun-Times Reporter Zay Smith, 28, who boned up for the story with a five-day stint at bartending school, and EGA Investigator Jeff Allen, 28. Sun-Times photographers, posing as repairmen, filmed the payoffs from a concealed loft...
Profoundly blasphemous, searingly angry, Ega de Queiroz' chronicle of the tragedy that follows is at once a chilling morality tale and a corrosive indictment of the priest-ridden society of Portugal in the 1860s. The book was written in 1871, but Queiroz had his troubles getting it published. After it finally appeared in 1874, it was inevitably put on the Index. But by the time Queiroz, a patrician career diplomat as well as author, died in 1900, he was recognized not only as Portugal's first realistic novelist but his country's greatest writer of prose. Widely...
Neither the Radcliffe Government Association nor the Radcliffe administration would predict last night the future of a proposal allowing each Radcliffe dormitory to stablish its own parietal hours. The EGA will consider the proposal at its meeting today...
Last week President Eisenhower named firm-jawed, tough-minded James Riddleberger, 54, to a demanding new job: director of the International Cooperation Administration, the agency that administers U.S. foreign aid. A longtime economic specialist and sometime political adviser to ICA's ancestor EGA, Riddleberger will have a fresh chance in the economic cold war to get back at the old business of talking back to Khrushchev...