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...think it's stupid," Jeffrey Scott '77 said, commenting on the change. Scott added that the library should have an entrance to the micro text room, which is directly under the west entrance and is open to the public...
...Agunloye, who works in the micro text room, called the locked doors "very, very inconvenient. Instead of walking straight down, I have to go all the way around...
...Seychelles were written by the former crown colony's new President, James R. Mancham, 36. A handsome, black-bearded lawyer who revels in his reputation as a playboy, Mancham is also a shrewd politician. He helped negotiate a $20 million loan from Britain. which also granted the new micro-nation title to Aldabra, a world-renowned tropical bird sanctuary, and to two other islands. The Seychelles are halfway between Africa and Asia, and Mancham is adamant about keeping the Indian Ocean "a peaceful lake." He has assured United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim that "we will do everything...
Computers are also moving into other areas, thanks to the invention by Marcian E. Hoff Jr., of Intel Corp., of the micro computer, containing tiny (1/6 sq. in.) chips of silicon, now used in cars to control antiskid systems or monitor engine temperatures and in refineries and sewage-treatment plants to control the decomposition of waste and the levels of bacteria. Some engineers are also working on the development of home computer terminals that could give individuals access to whole libraries of information, as well as start a sort of "electronic democracy" in which public opinion on any issue could...
There has been a flourishing in instrumentation too. Anything that whistles or bleats has been electrified?flute, string bass, tenor sax. There are wah-wah pedals on trombones, electronic keyboards, Moog Synthesizers, Mini Moogs, Micro-Mini Moogs, and last ?and perhaps least?the Alembic Bass with Instant Flanger.* The new machinery is just one more example of how jazz keeps expanding. Says Deejay Charlie Perkins of Boston's WBUR, "Jazz is borrowing the whole electrical thing...