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...Geneva Conference on Middle East peace, which was recessed in 1974, has since assumed the mystique of some diplomatic Camelot: in Geneva, some day, somehow, Israelis and Arabs will shake hands, sit down together and hammer out a permanent agreement ending 29 years of constant tension and frequent all-out war. That vision had taken hold in many capitals, notably Washington. But last week, as Secretary of State Cyrus Vance concluded his eleven-day swing through six Middle East states,* a Geneva Conference was clearly impossible by October, highly unlikely any time in 1977, and in general seemed more remote...
...When doctors hear about me, they wonder if they have chosen the right course," says Doctor-Turned-Businessman Armand Hammer. The celebrated 79-year-old Russophile and art collector is the chairman of Occidental Petroleum. He graduated from Columbia Medical School 56 years ago, but has never practiced medicine. While still a medical student, Hammer made his first million selling Pharmaceuticals. Later he worked in the Soviet Union, eventually building up a rich import-export business with the Soviets. At 59, he took over Occidental. Figuring that he would recycle some oil money into his original profession, Hammer last week...
...leading U .S. authorities on the present state of Soviet computers is Dr. Carl Hammer, director of computer sciences at Sperry Univac. Hammer, who often visits Russian cybernetic installations, believes the U.S.S.R. is nearly equal to the U.S. in the design and construction of computers. But it lags so badly in performance because of the Soviet failure so far to master "chip" technology-the ability to place large numbers of miniature circuits on tiny (usually ½ sq. in.) silicon chips or plates. While U.S. engineers can cram 10,000 to 50,000 components on one of these chips, the Russians...
Good Logicians. In terms of human talent-"brainware" in the argot of computer men-Hammer believes Russian cyberneticists are often better logicians than their U.S. counterparts. However, they are oriented toward the oretical problems. At the big Soviet training institutes, students concentrate very little on the standard international computer language for commerce, known as COBOL (Common Business Oriented Language). Instead, they drill in ALGOL and FORTRAN, the two major scientific languages...
...more grace notes -she talks about her Depression girlhood in New York, the Live and Let Live Meat Market that her father ran on Ninth Avenue-and then she is back into her real number. Her delivery takes on the timbre and pace of a pneumatic hammer. "This is a city that can attract and hold business, that can make its subways and its buses fit for human beings and can give us cleaner streets and air and can reduce crime and restore learning in our schools...