Word: kleine
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Cambridge school children may soon add computer programming to their repertoire of reading, writing, and arithmetic, because of the efforts of Philip N. Klein...
...Klein, an Applied Mathematics concentrator and Leverett House resident, is designing a computer curriculum for local schools that uses a special programming language developed for children. He has written proposals to Texas Instruments and Apple Computer, asking for a donation of $10,000 worth of "hardware" to be used in Cambridge Public Schools...
...Klein said yesterday he has received "enthusiastic" responses about his project--which he hopes to see implemented in the spring--from area schools, including the Rindge-Latin High School and the Agassiz Elementary School. He added that he has not yet received an answer from the companies...
...Says Klein, with more detachment: "It is an irony that it ended with a kidnap, the same way it started...
...Klein has filed kidnap charges with the Fort Lauderdale police, and last week a federal judge ordered a hearing on contempt charges against Macias-Rosales...