Word: masterful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carl Hammer, director of computer sciences at Sperry Univac. Hammer, who often visits Russian cybernetic installations, believes the U.S.S.R. is nearly equal to the U.S. in the design and construction of computers. But it lags so badly in performance because of the Soviet failure so far to master "chip" technology-the ability to place large numbers of miniature circuits on tiny (usually ½ sq. in.) silicon chips or plates. While U.S. engineers can cram 10,000 to 50,000 components on one of these chips, the Russians have been able to place no more than...
Mischa's master stroke was to place Agent Günter Guillaume at the right hand of then Chancellor Willy Brandt. A personal aide of Brandt's for four years, Guillaume handed over a wide range of state secrets to Mischa-and, by extension, to Mischa's KGB bosses -until his arrest...
...Latin Literature at the University of London, is taking an introductory Greek course and loves it. A graduate of the University of North Carolina, Gowing taught Latin for a while at the Tabor Academy in Marion, Mass., and is brushing up on his Greek to fulfill requirements for a master's degree...
Nevertheless, Friedman said he is enjoying his summer here. While the cell biology course is a little less challenging than he had hoped it would be, he spends his spare time working on his master's thesis on immunology and cell surfaces. He is also auditing an extension course in immunology at night...
Died. Vladimir Nabokov, 78, Russian-born novelist (Lolita, Ada, Pale Fire) who was a master of style and elegant artifice; after a long illness; in Montreux, Switzerland (see BOOKS...