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...teams of four students each met at Western New England College in Springfield for the annual competition sponsored by the Association of Computing Machinery. In the contest, students tried to write computer programs in the computer language Pascal to solve seven math and programming problems. When the six-hour time limit expired, Harvard had successfully completed six of the problems; the second-place team had solved only four...
...world's most famous prisoner celebrated his 70th birthday last week in Pollsmoor Prison, outside Cape Town. Isolated from the other inmates, Nelson Mandela refused the government's offer of a special six-hour birthday visit from his family as a way of protesting the plight of thousands of black activists jailed in South Africa. Meanwhile, Pretoria ordered roadblocks around the prison and clamped down on tributes to Mandela, including outdoor meetings, a private tea party and a concert at the University of Cape Town, which ended with the arrival of riot police in gas masks...
...woman passenger kept herself locked in a rest room in spite of entreaties to come out. She finally emerged, said she was ill and returned to her seat. She left a lavatory so spattered with blood (from diarrhea, flight attendants assumed) that it was closed off for the six-hour trip...
...full time. The Soviet Women's Committee, which submits to the government proposals on legislation affecting females, is seeking to increase the number of day-care centers (currently there are 3 million children without places) and build greater flexibility into work schedules. Some factories have begun to experiment with six-hour shifts. Says Zoya Pokhova, who heads the Committee: "Our goal is that women with young children should have shorter work hours...
Berk said that Kaplan liked to drive and wouldoccassionally make the six-hour trek from AnnArbor to Toronto. The two women who rode withKaplan to Toronto were going to share a room withhim at the University of Michigan...