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...still Bok (sorry), and Charles is wondering aloud who the scruffy ruffians shouting "Derek Bok get the word, this is not Johannesburg" in the foyer might...
ENIAC was decommissioned in 1955, having churned out military and scientific calculations for nearly a decade. Today its cabinet-size modules are scattered among several museums and institu tions. Four remain at the Moore School, gathering dust and cobwebs in a foyer off the old building's main hallway. Nearby, someone has hung a contemporary computer chip and a sign that says it all: "In less than 40 years, advances in microelectronics technology have enabled the digital computer with performance far superior to the ENIAC to be placed on a onequarter-inch piece of silicon...
...found the hall in the modern Havana convention center half empty. As many of the Cuban delegates milled in the foyer, drinking coffee and chatting, a fuming Castro grabbed the microphone and snapped, "We were just talking about discipline, and now some of the comrades are not even in their seats yet." Stung by the rebuke from their leader, the delegates began streaming back in, but it was an additional five minutes before Castro could renew his denunciations of government inefficiency...
While Hoppenstein--an unlikely villain at best--shared wine and cheese in the Lowell Junior Common Room, crowds outside grew larger and more hostile. When Harvard police refused to allow any people into the JCR, the group crammed into the small foyer separating the JCR from the Lowell House dining room. Harvard police, with Hoppenstein in low, finally burst through the crowd to take the diplomat to a waiting...
Emotionally charged testimony by the refugees filled the City Council chambers, as nearly 350 spectators crowded the building and another 100 watched the three hour meeting through closed-circuit television in the foyer...