Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard golf team never has such luck. Today they travel up to Williamstown, Massachusetts, for their second match of the season, against Williams and Boston College, and the weather remains true to form--low 50's with a good chance of rain...
HARVARD'S most venerable institution of all--the Freshman Jubilee Weekend--is dying from lack of participation. Despite clever advertising campaigns ("Grow Your Face") and big-name entertainers (The Lovin' Spoonful), ticket sales have been abysmally low and the famous boat cruise has been cancelled...
...nuclear energy, German physicists pointedly avoided using the word bomb; they were fearful that Hitler might order the immediate production of a nuclear weapon and hold them responsible if they failed to perfect one. Unconvinced of its military value, Nazi leaders gave their atomic energy program a relatively low priority; they never came close to matching the tremendous expense and manpower poured into the U.S. Manhattan Project...
...physicist, whose tenacity to life after an auto accident in Moscow six years ago astonished the medical world; of unspecified causes related to the accident; in Moscow. At the time the fourth Russian to win a Nobel prize in physics (for his theories on :he behavior of matter at low temperatures), "Dau" also helped his country develop nuclear weapons and contributed to the Soviet space program. In 1962, his car plowed into a truck, leaving him with such severe injuries that he was in a coma for 57 days and clinically dead on four occasions. Eventually he recovered enough...
...wishes. His determination is perhaps motivated by the first anger he has shown, and is certainly indicative of a crucial re-assertion of man over machine, again shifting the film's balance concerning the relationship between man and tool. In a brilliant and indescribable sequence, preceded by some stunning low-angle camera gyrations as Bowman makes his way toward HAL's controls, the man performs a lobotomy on the computer, dismantling all but its mechanical functions. Symbolically, it is the murder of an equal, and HAL's "death" becomes the only empathy-evoking scene in 2001. Unlike...