Word: mastrangelo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last public debate between Hatch and his Democratic opponent Edward J. King is over. Dick Mastrangelo, Hatch's not-so-very-confident and slightly overweight campaign manager, raises his hand for silence. "Now, we're all very proud of Frank. He did a real good job tonight. You heard him. But you also heard those poll results. That's what I'm looking at. As far as I'm concerned this race starts today, and it's a dead heat now. Five days and 10 hours. We have to get out there and work. If he loses...
Five days and 10 hours. Hatch's people look around at each other. Yeah, Frank did look good tonight. They wonder if it will work. For the first time all fall their candidate got tough with Ed King, like he too realized the clock was running out. Mastrangelo, dressed in a gray flannel suit vest and pants, with little bulges of fat straining the buttons, says that Frank has been aggressive, and tonight's debate looked particularly good because for once they had all spent some time working on his speeches. As we're talking, Mastrangelo bites down...
...many household operations, however, microcomputers are clearly inferior to simpler and less expensive devices. Like fingers. Michael Mastrangelo finds it easier to make his own tea than program a computer for the task. Says David Korman, who has an IMSAI 8080 in his Belmont, Mass., apartment: "I tried doing my checkbook on it. It's a lot faster by hand." And even though prices have dropped, microcomputers remain complicated devices that require long hours of study to use properly. When Robert Phillips let his sister give a party in his computerized Chicago apartment, he dutifully left a long list...