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Long jumper Johnson, who recovered from a disappointing performance in the GBCs last weekend with a leap of 24-it 4-in., provident the only Harvard win. Mr. Versatility, Mark Henry, took fifth and hopped, skipped and jumped his way to second in the triple jump. Shawn Hall was close behind and ended up in third place...
...TIME said in its 1978 cover story "The Computer Society," the new microtechnology is akin in significance to the moment prehistoric man first wrapped his fingers around a rock, thereupon enormously improving his competitive advantage against nature by becoming a user of tools. Computers constitute yet another quantum leap in the ability to cope with the world. This week's cover, "The Computer Generation," is in part the story of young minds wrapping themselves around their computer consoles every bit as enthusiastically and hopefully as the primitive clutching that rock. The very act of engagement, and continued involvement, changes...
...startling ease. Computer Software Expert Leona Schauble of the Children's Television Workshop (producers of Sesame Street) recalls getting an eight-year-old boy at Manhattan's Little Red School House started on a simple computer game. The game generated an image of a frog that would leap up and catch a butterfly, provided the right buttons were hit. After a few minutes, she checked back and found the frog jumping in slow motion. When she asked the youngster what happened, he replied, "Well, I wanted to make the frog catch more butterflies. So I got a listing...
Mercuric Tidings, a new work set to excerpts from two Schubert symphonies, extends the choreographer's concern with the limits of stamina. For 23 grueling minutes, 1 3 members of the company, swathed in flamingo pink, fly, leap, bounce, swirl and tumble. The activity never pauses, and is so speedy it constitutes a work hazard. Says Katz: "You can't watch it from the wings. They come so close to each somebody." other, Taylor you're may sure finally they'll have kill constructed a piece too difficult for even his kinetic company. The premiere performance...
...national interest. Bok observes that the government largely wastes the money it bestows on the 40 percent of all students who start but do not finish college. Nothing that this category includes three fourths of all students with particularly low grades and College Board scores. Bok makes an outrageous leap of logic. He recommends that such students whose combined SAI scores are below 700 and who rank in the lowest quarter of their class--be ruled ineligible for federal aid. The reason: Educating them will probably not produce any "public benefit...