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...Milwaukee, the Journal started printing a special eight-page wraparound section moments before the planes carrying the hostages to freedom took off from Tehran. The special sold an extra 45,000 over the normal press run of 320,000. Says Assistant Managing Editor George Lockwood: "It was nip and tuck at the end. There were butterflies in our stomachs." Newspapers in the U.S. and Europe generally gave the hostage story top billing over the Inauguration, but the New York Times led with Reagan's swearing-in. Said Times News Editor Allan Siegal: "In terms of real importance...
...there is more. Care for the afflicted? Quadriplegics may some day use spoken commands to order robot servants to do their bidding. Other designers are working on a robot that could gently lift up a bedridden patient, while a nurse changes his sheets, and tuck him back into bed. M.I.T. Computer Scientist Marvin Minsky visualizes a day, about 20 or 25 years from now, when a surgeon will be able to slip on a pair of special gloves connected by remote control to a pair of mechanical hands that can perform surgery for him in a hospital hundreds of miles...
Michael Parry said he is looking for volunteer storytellers but does not want those who "want to tuck kids into bed and jump in with them. This is a nice friendly Platonic thing. However, if a customer insists...
Parry said he expects most orders will be for friends, "since no one wants to say 'Come tuck...
Pillow Talk members boast of administering at least 100 tuck-ins in the past term alone and attribute their success to the "father image" they convey. Maryland women began offering their own service, but with more personnel and at less cost-25? per tuck-in. Asked their ad in the campus paper: "When was the last time you had five girls tuck you into bed?" William L. Thomas, Maryland's vice chancellor for student affairs, endorses the trend. "It's a very gentle custom," he says. When the women heard Thomas wistfully admit he had never been tucked...