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...students have been accepted off the wait list so far, computed to last year's 89 bitten students ate still left hanging on a special summer wait list. For those who do not end up joining their peers in the Class of '87, the College has guaranteed a slot in the Class of '88. This is the first year such a promise has been made...
...past two years will continue will be the arrival of a home computer, which IBM originally code-named "peanut." This will sell for about $700 and could reach stores in late fall. The machine, fully compatible with the PC, will come with a built-in disc drive and cartridge slot for software. "It will offer the best performance on the market for its price," asserts Clive Smith, a computer watcher with the Yankee Group, a Cambridge, Mass., research firm...
...something about the rhythm and character of their work: the white moving line of the automobile perpendicular to the guns, the pursuit of one profession bisecting another. There is the matter of their being journalists, who as cultural figures are always accorded a special (half revered, half resented) slot in the public mind, and of their being foreign correspondents in particular, with all the folklore glamour associated with that work. There is the influence of television, which has aggrandized the whole profession. It may also be that these deaths attract notice because they serve to remind people that risk entails...
...will decide within the next two weeks whether they want to buy and air the parody, a network official said yesterday, adding that while CBS has given The Lampoon no firm commitments "It's not unthinkable to us to give an hour slot to a college organization...We're generally inclined towards the idea...
...educated people were sick of being talked down to by the networks, whose cultural coverage, or lack of it, was a byword for inadequacy. They refused to buy Civilisation because they thought there would be no audience for it. So instead of being dropped into some Sunday-morning coffin slot on network, it went out on prime time on PBS, straight to 5 million refugees from electronic gunk. The size of this audience would not have impressed Fred Silverman, but enough people tuned in for their weekly fix of what Paul Claudel called "l' allure du vrai gentleman Anglais...