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...world's chess champion, and the IBM 360 mainframe still dominated the computer industry. It was designed to have a useful life of three years, at most. Yet today, after a quarter-century, when Fischer has disappeared from the chess scene and the IBM 360 is merely a nostalgia item on display at Boston's Computer Museum, the doughty little spacecraft Pioneer 10 is still plugging along...
Anyone who thinks electronic data storage is going to render print obsolete in the near future should consider Grove's Dictionary of Art, a 5-ft.-long shelf of 34 dark green-bound bricks of scholarship with a 720,000-item index, just published at the rebarbative price of $8,800 and worth every penny. This is, of course, the sister publication to the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, which, almost since its publication in 1878, has reigned unchallengeably as the authoritative work in its field. After the relentless barrage of propaganda about information that has been growing...
THIRD-PARTY CANDIDATES I was disappointed in your item "Who Says There's No Difference Among the Candidates?" [CAMPAIGN NOTEBOOK, Oct. 7], giving sketchy coverage to other parties' candidates for President. You included certain platform information without any development because you thought it would be entertaining. That is a technique a politician would use: take facts and distort them. You said these candidates will appear on the ballots of most states. Does that mean you are mocking the millions of Americans who feel that something needs to be done to drastically change the government's corrupt practices? Making a joke...
...elected by a landslide. The former police officer now sits on the prestigious Rules Committee, the watchdog for all House members. A deficit hawk, he made headlines as a freshman for sleeping on a sofa in his office to save taxpayers' money. He also supports the line-item veto and term limits and sponsored a 1995 program to provide lab and computer equipment to schools...
...University of Colorado board of regents, Kelley stresses his commitment to education, opposes cuts in Head Start and student loans and says defense spending can be reduced to pay for it. Better than a balanced-budget amendment, he says, is the line-item veto, which will let the President cut pork from spending bills. A welfare recipient as a child, Kelley opposed the welfare-reform bill passed this summer...