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...receivers have been similarly distinguished. The Raiders' tight end Todd Christensen was a fullback at B.Y.U. Bosco says, "We don't get the top recruits, the fastest receivers, but the ones we get are smart. They do what they're told. They don't ad-lib." This season they have managed to catch his passes for 35 touchdowns and more than 4,000 yds., including 343 yds. against Michigan...
...computer experts headed by Stewart Brand, editor in chief of the Whole Earth Software Catalog. Brand's idea was to bring together, for the first time, people from several generations of hackers, and his guests included some of the brightest stars in computing: Ted Nelson, author of Computer Lib, a widely read handbook from the mid-1970s; Stephen Wozniak, who built the original Apple computer; Lee Felsenstein, designer of the Osborne 1; Richard Greenblatt, who developed the LISP machines used in artificial-intelligence research; and Burrell Smith, a one time Apple repairman who went on to build the Macintosh...
Reporters were everywhere. The French left-wing journal Libération was covering part of the Olympics from a gay bar. The nonprint reporting was equally assertive. To slake its countrymen's curiosity about Los Angeles and life in the fast lane, British television showed naked ladies sitting in hot tubs sipping daiquiris, looked in on a cocaine-snorting party and reported on esoteric appliances like outdoor vacuum cleaners...
...well-staged media event. By the time he left China last week after a successful six-day visit, Reagan was convinced that his Chinese hosts really were catching the "free-market spirit." So optimistic was he about the prospects for friendship and trade that in one ad lib he referred to the People's Republic as "socalled Communist China," a remarkably benign description coming from a once unrelenting cold warrior who used to call the P.R.C. "Red China." The turnabout is perhaps more Reagan's than China's, but there was little doubt that the governments...
When the only patron with politically lib eral sympathies begins to orate, the bar tender-proprietor warns: "You start talkin' about niggers and America in here tonight, I swear you won't get another drink till winter. You understand?" Such moments surpass the contrivances of plot; surprise fades in the glare of recognition...