Word: halley
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After several days of intensive instruction (including homework), the campers choose their own computer project. Last week, for example, Peter Elliman, 12, was trying to design a program to analyze taxes for his mother, a Houston real estate agent. Halley Hupp, 13, of Newport Beach, Calif, said, "I want to make a C.S.I. [Computer System Instruction] program for teaching kids like us how to use some graphics and key words." Counselors give the youthful programmers high marks. Says Instructor Mitch Williams, 22, a computer-science graduate from the University of California at Santa Barbara: "I'm glad the kids...
...space agency has also been forced to delay until 1988 a project to orbit Venus with a satellite that will scan its cloud-veiled surface with radar beams. In 1986, Halley's comet, perhaps a chunk of debris left over from the early solar system, will return to the earth's vicinity for the first time since 1910. So far the space agency has been unable to scratch up the money for the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to intercept this visitor from deep space with cameras and other scientific instruments. Says George Rathjens, former chief scientist...
...expensive-nearly a third higher than the original estimate. It is military oriented. Above all, it drains money away from such scientifically important unmanned space projects as the joint European-American mission over the poles of the sun and the once-in-a-lifetime probe of Halley's comet. Democratic Senator William Proxmire, long a foe, noted, "I've never seen so much hype in my life. We're launching a truck into space, and everybody keeps saying it's the Second Coming...
Reviewing the Hasty Pudding Show is sort of like reviewing Halley's Comet--it just comes around at regular intervals, and everybody sees it. The show's great strength is predictability--its motto might be semper eadem. And if you think predictability in theater sounds like a bad thing, well, you're in the minority--the lady ahead of me in the box office line bought 40 tickets. Opening night audience members paid $25 each for the extra privilege of seeing the Man of the Year ceremony and getting soaked in champagne...
...dwindling, but the President announced the inclusion of $40 million in start-up funding in the fiscal 1982 budget for VOIR. That is an acronym for the Venus Orbiting Imaging Radar mission, a new project that had been eagerly sought by J.P.L., along with an unmanned probe to intercept Halley's comet when it returns in 1986. So far the U.S. has refused to authorize the tantalizing mission to the comet. Said J.P.L. Director Bruce Murray after the President's announcement: "We can use the money...