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...Dame, and about half of all the delegates at the Kansas City convention were Catholics. Among the featured speakers they came to hear was Leo Jozef Cardinal Suenens of Belgium, a leader of Catholic liberals, who celebrated Mass at the stadium. At one point he began chanting, "Ad gallum hum ..." Was it Latin? No. he too was speaking in tongues...
Many nights after most employees had gone home, the main computer at Sperry Univac's office near Philadelphia continued to hum. Two programming supervisors, David E. Kelly and Matthew Palmer Jr., had taught the machine to store and print complicated arrangements for musical groups, which the two then peddled to stores and bands. In the course of three years, the entrepreneurs bilked Sperry Univac out of some $144,000 in computer time. And they might never have been caught if another employee had not informed on them...
...Tires hum along the interstate while an afternoon sun reddens behind exhaust fumes. The natives in the back seat are restless. Bored with counting stalled vehicles and CB radio antennas, they have discussed Star Wars to a tatter. The day's second rendition of 99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall has petered out at bottle No. 37. Now sullen silence prevails, punctuated only by stage whispers to the effect that some parents feed their kids, for cryinoutloud. Egg McMuffined for breakfast, Burger Kinged at lunch and Stuckeyed in between, the little ones are hungry again. For that matter...
...address the World Food Conference at the U.N., now travels around schools in the east and south, collecting material for his book. Gallanty is insightful and clear-thinking--not one of your fried-on-dope types. To the best of my knowledge, Gallanty plays no instruments, though he might hum and probably whistles. He is in Cambridge for three weeks; meet...
...daily post-beach college party (reservations required), and the participants this day were Harvard, Brown, Cornell, Delaware and Oswego State. The entrants take part in three competitions--a banana-eating contest (the Nat Sci), a beer-chugging relay (the Soc Sci), and a wet tee-shirt event (the Hum)--with one school emerging as the overall victor. Sort of like the Olympics, if you know what I mean...