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Such surrealistic touches, largely unappreciated during his lifetime, now mark Arlt as an entertaining pioneer in the new world of South American fiction...
...difference in 1984 was that the women defined themselves however they chose to-and the press sometimes scrambled to keep up. After Cyclist Connie Carpenter-Phinney won the gold, she spoke to the true feeling of women in the Games: "I feel proud. I was a pioneer in women's cycling, and I worked very hard for this day. I think it may mean more to me than it might to some others." But the press became entangled in a problem of modern manners, insisting on knowing if she was Miss Carpenter or Mrs. Davis Phinney...
Hearts at the University of Utah surely skipped a beat last week when Dr. William DeVries, 40, the pioneer surgeon who in 1982 implanted an artificial heart in retired Dentist Barney Clark, made a surprise announcement: he is resigning from the Salt Lake City medical center to join Humana Heart Institute International in Louisville. The institute is owned by Humana Inc., which operates a chain of 90 hospitals in the U.S. and three foreign countries...
...regarded as a pioneer by the other paddlers: Sheila Conover, 21, a Californian and sometime student at Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa, Calif., the most gifted natural athlete on the squad; Shirley Dery, 22, born in the U.S. of Hungarian parents, who trained until last year with the powerful Hungarian team; and Leslie Klein, 29, from Concord, Mass., another kayak gypsy who converted from white-water kayaking. Klein spent years "living out of a car in soaking wet clothes, eating gritty oatmeal." Her life is somewhat more conventional now; she is married to J.T. Kearney, a phys-ed professor...
...profusion of free software is an outgrowth of the camaraderie that developed in the mid-'70s, when personal computers were new and commercial software was scarce. Pioneer users, sharing their breakthroughs and building on one an other's work, traded programs much as Little Leaguers swap baseball cards. One of the most popular titles was MODEM, a 1977 program that allowed personal-computer owners to send programming instructions to one another by telephone. Its author, IBM Engineer Ward Christensen, takes pride in never having profited from his labor of love. Says he: "People sometimes send me money...