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...mathematics professor at Cambridge University who also invented the speedometer and the locomotive cowcatcher, in 1834 designed a machine called the analytical engine to solve mathematical equations; it is generally considered the forerunner of today's computers. Augusta Ada, the Countess of Lovelace, daughter of the poet Lord Byron, helped finance the project. Credited with being the world's first programmer, she used punched cards to tell the machine what...
Wilfred Barclay is an aging, alcoholic English writer who has experienced a Golding-like stroke of good fortune; Coldharbour, his first novel, written just after World War II, became a commercial and critical success and apparently goes on selling as vigorously as Lord of the Flies, Golding's first and most famous novel. "I hit the jackpot," Barclay says. "Someone has to." In addition to fame and fortune, he has also won Rick L. Tucker, a burly young American professor with designs on Barclay's literary remains. Their relationship begins badly. Hearing what he thinks is a badger...
...block of ice with his pants down until he's told to get up-or lose his job." Lord Home of the Hirsel, the former Prime Minister of Britain, tells of a conversation about sporting guns with Mrs. Gromyko. She said, "If you buy a gun for my son, buy a better one than you buy for my husband, because my son lets the ducks rise off the water...
...March 28, 1982, a Sunday, the brilliant and studiously rumpled British Ambassador, Sir Nicholas ("Nikko") Henderson, brought me a letter from Lord Carrington. A party of Argentines, wrote the Foreign Secretary, had landed nine days earlier on the island of South Georgia, a British possession in the South Atlantic, some 800 miles southeast of the Falkland Islands, a British crown colony. "I should be grateful if you would consider taking...
...matter with the Argentines, stressing the need to defuse the situation," Lord Carrington wrote. "If we do not find a solution soon, I fear the gravest consequences...