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...Allied governments still refused to confirm the story, apparently because of a Soviet request for a delay until a formal surrender in Berlin could be arranged. Several hundred thousand people milled around for five hours in New York's Times Square, sober, uncertain whether to celebrate or not. Ticker tape fluttered through the air, then stopped. Finally Mayor Fiorello La Guardia bellowed through a loudspeaker, "Go home ... or return to your jobs...
...task, and NASA ground crews had to coach the Discovery astronauts through the fabrication of attachments resembling flyswatters for the arm. While a ground team experimented with a duplicate of the arm, Discovery's "swat" team employed such mundane equipment as Swiss Army knives and a roll of duct tape to turn some plastic tubing, wire, a metal sunshade frame and plastic notebook covers into tools. The makeshift instruments, they hoped, would catch the trigger, initiating a 45-minute sequence that would culminate in the firing of the LEASAT's propulsion rocket...
Problems with the hastily installed machines began to crop up immediately. Two of the computers had to be sent back to Sperry when technicians at the IRS offices in Memphis and Atlanta could not get them started. At other centers tape drives storing tax-return information persistently malfunctioned. In addition, a program developed to allow computers that suddenly crashed to resume processing where they left off mysteriously failed as well. Each time the system went down, operators had to start the work from scratch. Says Thomas Laycock, the IRS assistant commissioner of computers: "There were things that...
With a crisis approaching, Dyson ordered that results of the June 20 survey be sent to him while he attended a reunion at his family's Argentine ranch. Aides telephoned the report to Buenos Aires, where it was tape-recorded and driven six hours to the Dyson spread. It arrived as the executive was dining on a freshly slain and roasted heifer. Reading the document, Dyson realized that consumer anger was reaching critical levels. Says he: "You can get a wonderful perspective on some problems when you are half a world away...
...blues tradition of American music with a head-bobbing beat and unflappable composure. A groove this good could only have come straight from the source: I can picture Beck wandering the back alleys and dirt-caked hamlets of the American South armed only with a good ear and a tape recorder, a latter-day Alan Lomax...