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Harvard will have to get a, superhuman performance from McCandlish to stand a chance against the Crusaders. Holy Cross has won 14 in a row this season; they have had only a couple of close calls all year. If comparative scores mean anything (and let's hope they don't) it could be a positively embarrassing afternoon for the Crimson: early in the season Harvard lost to Boston University, 1 to 0, while Holy Cross massacred the Terriers, 14 to 0. Righthander Bud Knittle will start the game for Holy Cross. Knittle has a 6-0 season record...
...apprehension about the social effects of the computer arises from the machine's baffling blend of complication and simplicity. Basically, the digital computer is nothing but an electronic machine that can do arithmetic and retrieve information with incredible speed-but that very speed makes it, in its way, superhuman. Inside the computer's refrigerator-like cabinet dwells an intricate network of thin wires, transistors, and hundreds of thousands of tiny magnetized metal rings, all strung together into a memory-and arithmetic-processing unit. The location of each fact stored in the computer's memory is no bigger...
...computer, says Dr. Herbert A. Simon of Carnegie Tech, represents "an advance in man's thinking processes as radical as the invention of writing." Yet the computer is neither the symbol of the millennium nor a flawless rival of the human brain. For all its fantastic memory and superhuman mathematical ability, it is incapable of exercising independent judgment, has no sense of creativity and no imagination...
...question, Bradley is one of the greatest college basketball players in history. Harvard fans may have been a bit skeptical of the Tigers' golden boy when Princeton played here last month, but Bradley seldom goes into high gear unless the pressure is on. In the Eastern regionals, he was superhuman. Against Providence, he sank 14 of 20 field goals, 13 of 13 free throws, and made nine assists...
...Archie is long overdue; for the past three weeks he has been less than superhuman, and this is below his standards. Rutgers will have problems containing...