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...second stanza saw much the same action as the first. The Crimson continued to isolate men at the point to challenge the Pioneer defense. "Our game plan," said Coach Bob Scalise, "was to dodge out front and read the slides...
Harvard consistently found the open man, only to have the shot stopped by Post's ubiquitous goalie Chris Anglim. Anglim posted 24 saves for the afternoon and was a key factor in the effective Pioneer clear...
Even though SelectaVision is dead, videodisc technology will probably continue to grow. Such firms as Pioneer and Magnavox, which sell disc machines that use a more advanced system based on lasers, are expected to continue making machines. These devices, which assign a number to each image, allow the user to call up an individual frame almost instantly. Priced at about $700, the laser players are often used in education and industry. Several firms are developing ways to use video discs as data-storage devices for computers...
...some elementary schools, because it is easy to learn and use. More difficult to master, but more precise, is Pascal, named for the 17th century French mathematician. The language Ada, after the Countess of Lovelace, is the standard of the U.S. Department of Defense. Grace Hopper, one of the pioneer programmers, created COBOL (COmmon Business-Oriented Language), which is the most widely used programming language for mainframe computers...
...Kentucky farm boy, the son of a Confederate war hero, David Wark Griffith seemed more suited to be a child of 19th century lost causes than a pioneer of the art form of the future. But once the young actor walked into Biograph film studios on New York City's East 14th Street, the movies came to possess him as his romance of romances...