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...fact, I am just as free to insult, ridicule and slander as in past columns. It's a privilege I've abused in the past--believe it or not--and one that I undoubtedly will abuse again...
Davidson, who favors the remedial program, came under increasing criticism after the verdict in the Kemp case. When the regents put his contract renewal on hold, the president resigned because of what he termed "a personal and professional insult...
Last year, Princeton demolished Harvard's hopes for the Ancient Eight crown. Seeking revenge, Harvard fought the Tigers hard to the end this year, only to lose the deciding final relay by 0.04 seconds. Adding insult to injury, the traditionally hapless Cornell team stunned the aquamen, in another last-relay victory...
...Playboy, no Satan lurking in its messages. Nor is there an attempt to purify and protect society in The Crimson's decision not to run the ad. Simply, we could not tacitly support something which was so abhorrent to the majority of Crimson editors. We would not dare to insult Blacks by running an ad suggesting that they come to work in the diamond mines in South Africa, and we will not insult the women and men on The Crimson who regarded it that seriously...
...month after the ENIAC's public unveiling, Eckert and Mauchly resigned rather than turn their patent rights over to the university. Five years later they developed the first commercial computer, UNIVAC 1, but business reversals forced them to sell their fledgling computer company to Remington Rand. The final insult came in 1973. Seeking to invalidate Mauchly and Eckert's patent for "the" electronic computer, Honeywell convinced a federal judge that Mauchly had based his ideas for ENIAC on the work of a computer pioneer named John Atanasoff. The patent was dismissed, and Mauchly and Eckert lost legal claim...