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...symbol on campus, ROTC. Others came out of general dissatisfaction with Harvard education or procedures. Others came out of a desire for solidarity with the occupiers, or for an exhilarating experience. Thus the group in the building was far from homogenous. The numbers in the building did not exceed 200 to 300, and there was little evidence of widespread student support outside...
...only $1.30 an hour. President Richard Rynd, 38, a onetime scrap-metal dealer, openly scoffs at a competing home that employs registered nurses rather than aides. "No wonder it loses money," says Rynd. Like most operators, Rynd has no full-time staff physicians or dietitians. Even so, his homes exceed Medicare's staffing standards, which call for only one registered nurse in a home and licensed practical nurses to take charge when she is off duty...
...principal scourges of the century ?Communism and Freudianism?are staunch. Nabokov sees both as dreadful infringements upon creative freedom. "The social or economic structure of the ideal state is of little concern to me," he says. "My desires are modest. Portraits of the head of government should not exceed a postage stamp in size. No torture and no executions. No music, except coming through earphones or played in theaters...
...maneuver that threatens their own economies. The French are bound to feel that the Germans are trying to force them into devaluing just after their June 1 presidential elections. The British rightly fear that their fragile pound will come under renewed speculative attack. Britain's foreign debts far exceed its reserves of gold and foreign money, and sterling may be able to cling to its $2.40 rate only if international creditors give the British more time to repay...
Surely you would not argue that the dirt-moving power of a bulldozer cannot exceed that of its maker. Why, then, cannot the thinking power of a computer exceed that of its programmer? The machine has the advantage of great speed, phenomenal concentration, superb memory and relentless attention to detail. Few men can say the same. Remember that Edison described genius as consisting of 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration. It would appear that computers are further along that road than most humans...