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...bulletin on Apollo 16's blast-off from the moon with: "Listen, my children, and you shall hear/ Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere . . ."The Longfellow classic then lapsed into some blue doggerel dealing with Revere's sexual prowess. It turned out that an A.P. technician in New York, using the hoary rhyme to test what he thought was an in-house circuit, had inadvertently cut into the agency's "A" wire, the conduit for top stories. A.P. fired the culprit and sent out an urgent "disregard" order-in prose...
...interested Harvard student, for every fun loving or energetic member of the Harvard and Cambridge communities. As a spring festival the events that make up the celebration will attempt to convey a sense of creation and creativity as befits this season of the year.. Whether artist or performer, technician or observer, auditor or participant, no one will remain unaware of this new development on the cultural and environmental scene in Cambridge...
...both. He has become one of the best-liked of Hollywood professionals, a shambling, shirtsleeves type who actually uses words like "golly" and "gee" and is still married to his first wife after 14 years. He has also become one of the most gifted of character actors, a sublime technician for whom no inward emotion is too big to be fixed firmly in the smallest outward detail...
...about fraudulent test reports on airplane brakes that he says he had been ordered to write; after the FBI started a Government investigation, Goodrich replaced $70,000 worth of ill-designed brakes for the A-7D Air Force attack plane. Recently Robert Rowen, a former nuclear control technician at Pacific Gas & Electric Co., filed 49 charges against the utility with the Atomic Energy Commission; he alleged that P.G. & E. deliberately violated Government safety regulations in handling radioactive waste. The AEC later sustained two of the charges and rebuked the company on several more...
...operated by the university, the factories produce equipment ranging from quartz-tungsten lamps to logic circuits for third-generation computers. The university also plans a petrochemical plant. "The purpose of these factories is to serve as a base for scientific experiments," explains Tang Chin-wen, 39, the textile-mill technician whose ardent agitprop work won him the leadership of the university. "It is to change the situation that prevailed before the Cultural Revolution, when practical knowledge was divorced from theoretical knowledge...