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...only substantial weak spot remaining for semiconductor manufacturers is in sales of ROM (for read-only memory) chips, which are commonly used in video games. The chipmakers are stuck with huge inventories of ROMs because of the slump in games sales...
...familiar things (How else could a TV screen become a monitor?). They like even more to give new things names that are as mystifying to an outsider as the secret password of an esoteric cult. Thus the computer's two forms of "memory" are known as RAM and ROM. The temporary memory, RAM, meaning "random-access memory," can easily be changed; the permanent memory, ROM, meaning "read-only memory," cannot be modified...
...terrorists struck in Madrid in what outgoing Prime Minister Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo called "a provocation, not only against the armed forces but against the Spanish people who voted massively for harmony." Two men mounted on motorbikes used submachine guns to riddle the official car of Major General Victor Lago Román, 63, who, after the dismissal of right-wing officers last year, was named commander of the Brunete armored division that guards Madrid. The general was killed instantly and his driver gravely wounded. The attackers escaped, but credit for the assassination was claimed by members of the military branch...
...when Brown, Doyle and Jim Curtin are throwing well, no team has better starters than Harvard. And if that continues to be true, the hitting won't even matter. FIRST GAME PENNSYLVANIA (5) AB R H BI Syrek, ss. 4 0 0 0 Flacce, rf 5 1 3 0 Rom, c 4 0 1 1 Mock, dh 2 1 0 0 Smith, 1b 3 1 1 0 Criscuolo, 2b 3 1 1 0 Carter, rf 3 1 2 0 Kupcha, 3b 3 0 1 1 Sailor...
...Second Game PENNSYLVANIA (0) AB R H BI Syrek, ss 3 0 0 0 Flacco, cf 3 0 0 0 Rom., c 3 0 0 0 Mock, dh 3 0 0 0 Smith, 1b 2 0 0 0 Carter, lf 3 0 0 0 Shuttle, 2b 2 0 0 0 Sailor, lf 1 0 0 0 Kupcha...