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Bomb squad experts speculated that the blast may have been caused by a small "pipe-bomb," said Cambridge Sgt. Irwin Nolan. He added that with a pipe-type bomb, gun-powder is placed inside a metal cylinder and left with a detonating device at the site of the planned explosion...
...Molly Nolan, former associate professor of History at Harvard and now at New York University (NYU), said Brenne is one of the top congressional scholars in the country. "I am impressed with the breadth and depth of his mind," she added, and charged that "he was evaluated in a political and ideological context at the University of Maryland...
...Today he owns houses in the Bel Air section of Los Angeles and in Malibu, and has a Bentley, a Ferrari and a Rolls-Royce. A year ago, Sanders rented San Francisco's Civic Center to treat 7,000 workers to a $350,000 party. Atari Founder Nolan Bushnell owns two yachts: the 41-ft. Pong, which he has lent to a friend, and the 44-ft. Sea Rat, which he uses himself...
...were doing, but we were very careful observers and learned quickly." Jobs pestered Regis McKenna, the area's premier public relations specialist, to take on Apple as a client. After refusing twice, McKenna finally agreed. For advice on how to raise money, Jobs consulted both McKenna and Nolan Bushnell, his former boss at Atari. They suggested that he call Don Valentine, an investor who frequently puts money into new firms. When Valentine came around to inspect the new computer, he found Jobs wearing cutoff jeans and sandals while sporting shoulder-length hair and a Ho Chi Minh beard. Valentine...
...Nolan Bushnell, 39 last week, is the inventor of Pong, a kind of electronic Ping Pong that was the first successful coin-operated video game. The son of a Clearfield, Utah, cement contractor, Bushnell had a passion for amateur radio as a boy (call letters: W7DUK). That led to his first business: repairing radios, television sets and washing machines. He earned a degree in electrical engineering from the University of Utah in 1968. While there, he toyed with computers. He came up with Pong in 1971 and started selling the coin-operated game...