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Four students, three faculty members and two alumni will join the ACSR this year. In addition, President Bok will have to select a new chairman to replace Milton Katz, Stimson Professor of Law Emeritus, acting chairman last year...
...microcomputer, there are compact electronic learning aids that can be toted to and from school like a lunch box and cost from under $20 to about $120. Texas Instruments, a pioneer in "talking" computer chips, is the leading producer of these less expensive aids. (Others: Mattel, Coleco, Milton Bradley.) In 1978 TI introduced Speak & Spell, a talking learning aid, which imitated the human voice-questioning, coaching and correcting the user -with an integrated circuit on a single silicon chip. On a later machine, called Speak & Read ($75), a child can complete sentences at three levels of difficulty by pressing letters...
Actually, Hays may earn his place in the record books by a mere 24 hours.Though a court-ordered delay is predicted, Texas authorities in Huntsville are scheduled to give a lethal injection the following day to convicted Killer Charles Milton, 30. Depending on reports from observers at both events, the needle may soon come under consideration as a means of execution for many of the 850 men and women now on the nation's death rows...
...result: 6,000 senior managers now earn the same amount as some 30,000 subordinates who reached the limit by annual cost of living increases. Unless the ceiling is lifted, within two years 135,000 federal employees will be bunched together at the top scale. Says Acting Comptroller General Milton J. Socolar: "This situation is absurd...
...games. Many readers were offended by Irving's mating of the truly tragic and grotesquely comic, by the car crash that kills little Walt and removes Michael Milton's penis, by Roberta Muldoon, the transsexual football player, and the Ellen Jamesians, the radical feminist group whose members cut out their tongues to protest rape. Among those with reservations was the author's mother. Says Frances Irving: "There are parts of Garp that are too explicit for me." Literary heroes like T.S. Garp and John Berry of Hotel New Hampshire challenge social dogmas and traditional sexual roles. Although...