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...White House last week came the first state visitor since President Johnson's inauguration. He was little (5 ft. 6 in.) Maurice Yameogo, President of the little (105,900 sq. mi.), new nation of Upper Volta. Yameogo, 43, came to Washington a fan of Abraham Lincoln; he left a fan of Lyndon Baines Johnson...
...University of Pennsylvania's celebrated ENIAC, which, as the first electronic computer, used 18,000 vacuum tubes as circuits and quick-acting switches. Though they were a big advance, vacuum tubes proved too expensive, too unreliable and too bulky: ENIAC weighed 30 tons and took up 1,500 sq. ft. of floor space. Until 1954, when Remington Rand (now Sperry Rand) first sold its UNIVAC to industry, the few computers in the U.S. were largely experimental and custom designed...
...House of Representatives subcommittee Friday denied funds to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for the construction of the planned $61 million NASA research laboratory in Kendall Sq...
...vote denying funds represents a victory for businesses in Kendall Sq. which would be displaced by the research center. Members of the subcommittee who voted to deny funds said they did not oppose the construction of the laboratory but only the choice of the site...
...sq. in. for Aristotle v. $4,448 for Titus...