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...city had risen to the occasion. The Knot-Hole Gang clustered about the 200-foot high struts of the Old Grand-Dad billboard that peers down into Fenway Park. On a nearby apartment building five button-down pioneers looked out from the highest outcropping of stone, twenty-three stories above the ground. The Red Sox had inspired Bostonians to assault modern architecture and advertising--which was more than Louise Day Hicks would ever...
...lake, or river) in ships (or boats)-and whether they sail a 13-ft. Blue Jay or a 70-ft. offshore racer, they are a breed apart. West Coast fanatics get their kicks out of racing dinky, 8-ft. El Toros around treacherous San Francisco Bay, where a 20-knot wind is just air conditioning. Wintertime "frostbite" racing in tiny dinghies (6ft. to 14-ft. cockleshells with sails) is all the rage on the Great Lakes: "I was dunked three times last winter," boasts a gleeful Chicagoan. In last June's gale-tossed Annapolis-to-Newport race, 91 boats...
Some time in the '70s, most com puter men predict, today's software knot should be untangled, partly by a vast expansion of computer schools and partly by more automation. Computer companies are straining to concoct programs that write other programs. Thus they foresee the day when a few standardized reels of tape will begin to replace programmers at the simpler levels. Still, few in the industry expect competent technicians to face unemployment. If today's pattern holds, every new triumph in computer technique will only fortify the demand for wider applications. The saturation point for computers...
Bare Hands. The resurgence of fighting in the mist-shrouded Highlands came after a company of the 173rd Airborne Brigade made contact with North Vietnamese regulars who had been waiting in sanctuaries across the border in Cambodia. When the Americans brushed into a small knot of the Communist forces, they pursued their quarry up a muddy hillside in the jungle near Dak To, seven miles from where the frontiers of Cambodia, Laos and South Viet Nam meet. The U.S. troops were led right into a torrent of machine-gun fire from 30 sandbagged bunkers atop the slope. By the time...
...manager ("C'mon, baby, you gotta go"), left school and went on a tour of France, where critics crowned her "Paris' Black Pearl." Rhapsodized Jean Monteaux in Arts: "The play of this voice makes you think sometimes of an eel, of a storm, of a cradle, a knot of seaweed, a dagger. It is not a voice so much as an organ. You could write fugues for Warwick's voice...