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...list of surrogates didn't include political leaders like New York Gov. Hugh Carey or Sen. Daniel P. Moynihan (D-N.Y.), who urged Kennedy to enter the race last fall. But Orren says the endorsements will come quicker now that the Bay State senator has some momentum...
...registration would build a national data bank with names and numbers for millions of American youths--a computerized blueprint for national mobilization. Carter admits it's a symbolic act to demonstrate American resolve to the Soviets, not a military necessity. But the symbolic value of draft registration sends a quicker message to American voters than to the Kremlin: Carter can appear to take a hard line against the U.S.S.R. and to bolster national defense through a relatively inexpensive information-gathering process. Draft registration is his placebo to soothe America's war fever; its numbers can't make us any safer...
...UMass pins put the Minutemen back in the match. Tyler Jacks, making slow transition to 158-Ibs. died a painful death to Mike Carroll at 5:40. Co-captain Doug Masson bit the dust quicker when Dave McKentee iced the struggling senior...
...began building an electronic machine to replace mechanical devices. The ENIAC (for Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator), a 30-ton leviathan completed in 1946, was 1,000 times speedier than any other computer. After selling their company to the Sperry Rand Corp., the two devised smaller and even quicker machines, among them the celebrated UNIVAC, developed in 1950. But Sperry lost its early lead in computers to IBM, and ENIAC'S creators, having signed away their patents early, never achieved great wealth. Said Mauchly: "That is life...
Fortunately, the refs' sight difficulties had nothing to do with the final result. What coach George Ford termed his team's "quicker, more direct" attack had earned its fourth straight victory...