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Compared to the 25-yard-by-50-meter expanse of swimming lanes, the diving well is an unobtrusive nook in Blodgett Pool. If not for the platform tower stretching nearly eight meters above the floor, a first-time visitor to Blodgett might miss the well altogether. But in this deep pond, the Harvard divers, men's and women's, the best divers in the East, fly through the air with the greatest of ease, practicing perfect tucks and knife-like entries...
...wondrous, and immensely profitable, link between the electronic brain and the mechanical hand. It is a link that stretches from the designing room to the shop floor, and its simple aim is to boost sagging American industrial productivity. The key is the insertion of computer intelligence directly into every nook and cranny of industrial manufacturing, from product conceptualization to the myriad tasks of actual production. In so doing, the infant technology is already firing up a billion-dollar market of its own, as well as beginning to alter the very meaning of work for blue-and white-collar employees alike...
...with one hand, the kid who knew the lines to every Three Stooges movie ever made. And when the teacher would tell him to "quiet down," and accuse him of acting like a two-year-old, he would always come up with something like "I resemble that remark! (nook nook nook)" and the whole class would snicker...
...posters, labels, environmental journals, medical tracts, Government reports, even books. One of the books is a brand-new broadside by Dr. Charles T. McGee, a clinical ecologist of Alamo, Calif., who is quoted above. His 220-page polemic issues a general alarm about multifarious dangers that lurk in every nook and cranny of contemporary civilization. Even fluorescent lighting, he says, may, in some weird way, weaken the muscles. The book, billed as a "crash course in protecting your health from hidden hazards of modern living," is entitled How to Survive Modern Technology. Anybody with a frail heart might not even...
...rything's goin' my way": so go the lyrics. What nook or dell of the U.S.A. in the shadow of the 1980s echoes them? Doubt and the rage of impotence stalk the land. People worry about whether they can gas up to cross a state, let alone found one. With three trusty assistants -his horse, his saddle and his gun-the cowboy hero of Oklahoma!, Curly (Laurence Guittard), is his own man. Where is the man who would dare or would be permitted to carve out his personal destiny that way today? There is a winning comic figure...