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...Wellfleet that stays open from the late spring to the early autumns. To relieve the boredom and loneliness, he paints and draws away the long January and February hours. Pete cautions anyone rash enough to think that staying in Wellfleet through the late fall and winter will not exact a cost. It does...

Author: By Jefferson M. Flanders, | Title: When Rich Folks Leave Cape Cod | 2/26/1975 | See Source »

Freund will deliver his lecture, "Freedom of Expression: the Search for Standards," at the end of April at the National Academy of Sciences. The exact date has not yet been...

Author: By Michael L. Silk, | Title: Endowment for the Humanities Gives Lecture Post to Freund | 2/24/1975 | See Source »

...five well-tailored defendants rose for sentencing in the U.S. District Court of Judge Carl Muecke in Phoenix, Ariz. All executives of large milk companies, the five had pleaded nolo contendere to charges of price fixing dating back to 1966. Muecke indicated that he would exact fines on each of as high as $4,000 and impose jail sentences of up to 45 days. Instead, Muecke was taking his cue, he said, from the ancestral Indian practice of demanding reparations for a crime, as well as from the Anglo-Saxon concept of wergild ("mangold"), which translates roughly as payment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICAN NOTES: Electoral Fumbling | 2/24/1975 | See Source »

Also, Professor Gagliardi helped Honeywell develop its series 60 computer line, which includes the level 6000 computers. These computers, according to Air Force Magazine, are "at the heart of the World Wide Military Command and Control System."--known as Wimmix. Little is known about the exact purpose of Wimmix, or about the Pentagon's plans for it, but it is apparently intended to be a massive military intelligence system which would be used in the event of military conflict. The Honeywell Information System was awarded $8 million Wimmix contracts in 1973 and was scheduled to receive another $8 million last...

Author: By Eric M. Breindel, | Title: Manufacturing Death | 2/8/1975 | See Source »

Nevertheless, people have been calling Horowitz a genius--a boy genius, to be exact--since he was seven, and gurgled over the air in Morse Code, the youngest ham radio operator in the country. The talk continued as Horowitz went through Summit High School in New Jersey and Harvard, building gadgets in his free time like refrigerators with no moving parts and advanced telescopes. And when he began dating a tall blond nursing student named Carol Grodzins a few years ago, colleagues often approached her at parties and whispered, as if sharing a delicate secret, "Paul is such a genius...

Author: By Thomas H. Lee, | Title: A Boy Wonder Finds a Home | 1/15/1975 | See Source »

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