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Debating before a Kennedy School Forum crowd of more than 900. Dr. Hans Bethe and Dr. Edward Teller sharply disagreed over whether an American missile defense system based in space would be effective...

Author: By Michael C.D. Okwu, | Title: Prominent Physicists Debate Development of Space Weapons | 11/10/1983 | See Source »

...other hand, Teller, who is considered the father of the hydrogen bomb, acknowledged that while the development of such weapons will prove scientifically difficult, it is necessary to curb a growing Soviet military threat...

Author: By Michael C.D. Okwu, | Title: Prominent Physicists Debate Development of Space Weapons | 11/10/1983 | See Source »

...computers?' The answer is almost certainly 'No.' My sense is that most people aren't going to have the choice of: 'Will I or won't I get involved with computers?' Even if it's just with an electronic teller at the bank, everybody is going to have some contact with computers and it's not going to be O.K. to be afraid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: A How-to for Have-Nots | 10/24/1983 | See Source »

...fact that Hemingway is far from being a run-of-the-mine writer. Disregarded also were certain further clues. Death in the Afternoon contains much information on its author's basic philosophy. "All stories," he remarked there, "end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books 1937: TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT by Ernest Hemingway | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

...since 1980 looser federal rules have permitted banks to pay higher interest rates, and rising costs have forced bankers to watch expenses more carefully. Building a branch bank can cost more than $1 million, compared with about $350,000 for the automated-teller centers that banks have been installing at former branch locations and in shopping malls and airports. The machines also cost less to operate, about 250 per transaction vs. 500 with a human teller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Branch Pruning | 9/12/1983 | See Source »

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