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...Elliott, E.T. is everything a boy could want: a toy, a pet, a jolly Space Invader of a video game - most of all, a friend whose feelings become his own. To Gertie, E.T. is a youngest sibling's most welcome addition: someone even smaller than she, an infant brother she can dress up as a bag lady and even teach to speak. E.T. is remarkably adaptable and wonderfully funny in his adventure on earth. Left alone in the house, he toddles around like a middle-aged ironworker on a weekend without the wife, his potbelly peeking...
...collected after the shooting by FBI agents from Hinckley's room at Washington's Park Central Hotel and at his parents' home in Evergreen, Colo., will prove more of a boon to the prosecution or the defense. Among the items agents found were a black plastic toy pistol and a Band-Aid box with a note inside reading "This plane has been hijacked!" There were also magazine and newspaper clips on the deaths of John Lennon and Elvis Presley and the shooting of former Alabama Governor George Wallace. Among Hinckley's books...
This weekend, the netmen were forced to interrupt their reading period activities to toy with two Eastern Intercollegiate Tennis Association (EITA) opponents. Army and Cornell, in preparation for the Crimson's May 15 participation in the NCAA Nationals competition...
...increasing sophistication, as if to make sure that his evolution is no slower than that of his creations. Still, it is sometimes nerve-racking to read what these boxes can do. Joseph Weizenbaum, of M.I.T., who has recently come to criticize computer education for children as a context for "toy problems," nonetheless got more than a toy gasp out of the public in 1968 when he unveiled his project ELIZA-an IBM 7094 programmed by Weizenbaum to "practice" psychotherapy-and then published a "conversation" between ELIZA and a real patient...
PROVIDENCE, R.I.--It wasn't enough for the Harvard men's lacrosse team to beat Brown 16-12; the laxmen had to toy with their opponents, never letting the game get out of the Bruins reach, yet never letting them quite catch...