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Harvard's volleyball team traveled west this weekend to Springfield College to lock horns with more than 20 teams in the New England Volleyball Open, and the Crimson squad battled its way into the semifinals before losing to host Springfield in the semi-finals...
...huge market for the new phones. Himsworth envisions the day when PBX systems will transmit programmed information to put through a wake-up call to an employee in the morning, electronically turn on the lights and air conditioner a few minutes before he arrives at work, and lock the office door when he leaves at day's end. Electronic word-processing machines may be hooked onto the phone system, Himsworth figures, allowing an employee to punch out a letter at his desk and have it automatically transmitted to one or 1,000 receiving devices attached to phones throughout...
...opened in 1956. Many private marina owners will not accept live-aboards because of their demands on dockside services. As a result of berth control, there is a whole subsubculture of hide-aboards, who tie up what looks like a weekend cruiser and then surreptitiously move in, lock, schlock and beer barrel...
...canisters exploding and we were enveloped in a heavy, stinging fog. We jumped off and started crawling on our bellies toward the embassy's main gate, which a crowd was trying to burst through. I was swept into a group of about 15 people, who crashed the lock and surged into the compound. Suddenly several Khomeini men pushed through the crowd and began shooting in the direction of the embassy, apparently at the attackers. A young man with a white headband moving next to me about three feet away pitched to the ground, wounded...
...concentration. When the wind died down while he was out sailing, he would whip out his notebook and do his calculations. Stymied by a thorny problem, he would tell his colleagues in accented English, "Now I will a little tink," pace slowly up and down, while twirling a lock of his unruly hair, or perhaps puff on his pipe, then suddenly erupt in a smile and announce a solution. Interrupted by parades of visitors to his Mercer Street house, he could resume his work almost as soon as they stepped out of his second-floor study. Recalls British Author...