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...saturate, Crane has already been slogging campaign that has, thus far, stressed style over content, Phil Crane owns a handsome visage, an endless store of historical quotes and a natty wardrobe. Phil Crane is a political operator who harkens back to other days. Quoting Lincoln and Jefferson ad infinitum, he always has the right smile or the right historical quotation; after months of practice, Phil Crane is smooth...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Asterisks, Stragglers and the Overlooked | 2/25/1980 | See Source »

...long story not as long as it could be, I'll tell you that I caught a second wind and in mechanical rhythm finished the course. Our cox cried wolf only once, calling for a power 20 with 80 strokes left, another power 20 with 60 strokes left, ad infinitum (or at least so it seemed...

Author: By Steven D. Irwin, | Title: Back of the Head | 10/26/1979 | See Source »

...means overshadowed by his co-star Olivia Newton-John as Sandra D. Grease is entertaining. It could possibly lighten up a dull evening, and if you haven't heard the songs (although by now you must have heard "You're the One That I Want" played ad infinitum on the radio) once or twice by now, they are kind of fun as well...

Author: By Laurie Hays, | Title: The '50s Were Never Like This | 7/7/1978 | See Source »

Putting the Stanford idea into actual practice, a team of computer scientists at M.I.T. led by Ronald Rivest has devised a novel approach. It involves what mathematicians call prime numbers-numbers (e.g., 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, ad infinitum) that can be divided evenly only by themselves or by 1. Under the M.I.T. scheme, each public, or encoding, key is based on the product of two large prime numbers-that is, the result of multiplying these numbers by each other. This result may be a figure several hundred digits long. The private, or decoding, key, on the other hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: An Uncrackable Code? | 7/3/1978 | See Source »

...simple. It's 1946 in Da Bronx. Timmy Cleary has just returned from the Army, back to the not-so-peaceful home of his parents, John and Nettie. They are a middle--class, heavily Irish family, and like all good families in the theater, they have their problems, ad infinitum. The mother detests the father. The father detests the mother. Their son has very little in the way of respect for either of them. Dad, it seems, is a coffee dealer whose drive for the big time was thwarted by the Depression, an experience that frustrated him to the point...

Author: By Andrew Multer, | Title: The Subject Was Trite | 6/30/1978 | See Source »

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