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Murphy must be delighted with the Harvard lacrosse team. The laxmen dropped a 13-7 decision to the University of Massachusetts yesterday at Ohiri Field, confirming the old maxim: "Whatever can go wrong, will go wrong...
...hours of rigorous testing with hundreds of voice spectrograms. At one point, the Carnegie-Mellon team tried to trip up Zue with the phrase "A stitch in dime saves nine," expecting him to misread dime as time. But Zue, having grown up in China, had never heard the old maxim. He passed the test and made believers of a generation of speech scientists...
...work in which science and technology are subordinated to narrative techniques not usually found in popular fiction. The style is better appreciated when the novel is considered as a continuation of Moorcock's Byzantium Endures (1982), a work of similar grand design that introduced the author's crank hero, Maxim Arturovitch Pyatnitski. His opening line of the sequel: "I am one of the great inventors of my age. Rejected by its birthplace, my genius would otherwise be universally acknowledged...
...correspondent. Heit has traditionally been a he-dashes from one cosmopolitan capital to another by first-class jetliner or Orient Express-style railway compartment; he puts up at such elegant hostelries as Claridge's in London or the Plaza Athénée in Paris, dining at Maxim's or its local equivalent; he hobnobs with celebrities and is on intimate terms with heads of government...
...secondly, Harvard (11-4) proved the veracity of the NCAA poll when it kicked Yale's collective gluteus maxim last Saturday morning, sending the pups back to New Haven without any scraps from the NCAA's table...