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...although there may be 6200 different results when the great shadow has finally passed, there are not really so many different struggles going on. Undergraduates react to the imminence of examinations much as they reacted to the inexorable presence of Harvard University all year: in one of three fundamentally different ways...

Author: By Faye Levine, | Title: On Handling Academia: Strive, Scoff, or Skip | 5/15/1964 | See Source »

Also uncertain is how the varsity will react in what will be its first real competition of the year. So far the Crimson JV's have come closest to the varsity; when the JV's time was announced Saturday, the varsity oarsmen applauded, not because the JV boat had won, but because its time, with the tailwind, had not bettered their...

Author: By C. BOYDEN Gray, | Title: How About That, Sports Fans? Sixteen Wins, No Losses | 5/11/1964 | See Source »

...training precautions are laudable, although it should be added that armies have discovered men do not always react in the field as they do in training...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VIOLENCE AND MISSISSIPPI | 5/5/1964 | See Source »

...every one of the state's 23 house seats, and the May 2 G.O.P. primary may produce an attractive senatorial candidate in Houston's George Bush, son of Connecticut's former Senator Prescott Bush, to run against liberal Democrat Ralph Yarborough. The Democrats are beginning to react. In Dallas County, where eight of the nine state representatives are Republicans, they are trying to patch up a twelve-year-old feud, have hopes of giving five-term G.O.P. Congressman Bruce Alger a tough fight for reelection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: MORE | 4/17/1964 | See Source »

...room now fit into cabinets no bigger than a water cooler. This saves materials and floor space, but a much more important advantage is increased speed of operation. When a computer is working, a blizzard of brief electric pulses swirls through its innards. The transistors and other components react almost instantly, but the pulses cannot travel between them faster than the speed of light, which is about ten inches in one billionth of a second. If they must cover any considerable distance, they slow the computer down. System/360 is so compact that the pulses can reach their destinations and complete...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: Do-All Thinkmachine | 4/17/1964 | See Source »

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