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...814th letter since his 1946 start. "The hardest time I had reporting this country sympathetically was during the shabby era of Senator Joe McCarthy," he says. Cooke is none too fond of the Reagan era either, contending that abroad the President "is seen as Teddy Roosevelt with a pack of missiles in his hand." And how is Cooke seen? "It's comic but true," he sighs. "I seem to be perceived in America as a benign old English gentleman, and in England as an enlightened American...
...first-ever squad, formed by McKay Professor of Computer Science Harry R. Lewis '68. led a pack of 25 schools in the Northeast regionals at the Coast Guard Academy in New London...
Each program uses a cigarette pack-size "mouse" as a control device; each allows users to split their screens into rectangular blocks, or windows, giving them the look of desktops littered with sheets of paper. Both systems attempt to address two fundamental challenges facing the personal computer industry: how to get the same program to run on machines put out by different manufacturers, and how to swap information smoothly between different programs. At present, for example, software for an IBM machine will not run on an Apple computer, and most users cannot easily take information from a financial analysis program...
Monica added that she is planning to pack up and leave the location for good when it is torn down next March unless she receives an offer from the Niles company to move back in. She says returning to the renovated site will mean weighing the benefits of the location against higher rent of the new store. But setting up a new store for such a short period of time was not such a risky venture, according to Monica. "The costs of setting up the store were low, especially since Pangloss left all of their shelves in the store...
...President's way of thinking. They are Morris Abram, former president of Brandeis University; John Bunzel, senior research fellow at the Hoover Institution; and Robert Destro, law professor at Catholic University. Critics who had held still for the 1981 firings howled that Reagan was trying to pack the commission with a majority that would uncritically approve his civil rights record, and lately have questioned whether he has legal power to dismiss commissioners (the law is unclear). The Senate took no action to confirm his appointees. The White House stormed that the three had distinguished civil rights records and were...