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Mercedes Olivera, renowned Uruguayan harpsichordist, performs baroque works for that instrument in a concert tonight; Bach, Scarlatti and Rameau will be featured in the program. Go to Holmes Living Room, North House, for the free performance at 8. If you're still thirsting for more of the baroque and the beyond, Musica Sacra, conducted by Lenora McCroskey, plays works of Josquin, Battishill and others from the dark, dark ages. Also included are Brahms's Songs, Opus 62. The concert takes place Friday evening at Harvard-Epworth Church, 1555 Mass. Ave., at 8:30. There is a $1.50 contribution which might...
...have time to participate in those activities offered. The question of how the admissions office percieves those activities participated in by Third World students is also important. Is the conga player seen as important as the violin players? He should--be after all, the conga is as important an instrument in Third World culture as the violin is in white society--but the admissions office does not seem to agree...
...industry's prodigious ability to produce the chips is also its Achilles' heel; the danger that chip makers could eventually produce far more and far more powerful chips than the market can absorb is real. By 1985, according to C. Lester Hogan, vice chairman of Fairchild Camera & Instrument Corp., it will be feasible to build a pocket calculator "that will be more powerful than, and almost as fast as," the $9 million Cray-1, built by Cray Research Inc. in Chippewa Falls, Wis., and recognized as the mightiest computer in the world...
...year later, eight of Shockley's ablest collaborators quit, and with backing from Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corp. founded Fairchild Semiconductor. The new firm prospered and eventually began to spawn its own host of upstart competitors as its technicians, one after another, decided to go into business for themselves...
...think cocaine is a harmless substance," Dr. Lester Grinspoon, associate professor of Psychiatry and coordinator of the association workshop, said yesterday, but added that criminal law is a "clumsy instrument" for controlling the use and abuse of the drug...