Word: united
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...computers as "waited upon by crisp, young, white-shirted men who move softly among them like priests serving a shrine" brought smiles to myself and my fellow programmers. At a certain research installation we had a computer that would periodically begin rather violent vibrations whenever the random access unit was used...
This caused us little inconvenience, however, because an unknown computer operator had previously discovered that one swift kick at the center of the random access unit and precisely two feet off the floor would keep the computer still for weeks. Familiarity does breed contempt -even for computers...
...Tartar. Nureyev was in fact born in motion-on a train rattling across the icy stretches of Siberia. It was 1938, and his peasant mother was en route to visit his father, a soldier assigned to teach Communist doctrine to a Russian artillery unit stationed just then in Vladivostok. But Nureyev does not feel Russian. Both his parents, he proudly points out, are descendants of the "magnificent race of Bashkir warriors," and therefore "I am Tartar, not Russian." The Tartar temperament, he explains, is a "curious mixture of tenderness and brutality...
Gilman House will be torn down to make way for the first unit of the Fourth House, and Putnam House will again be used for administrative and tutorial offices...
...houses will probably be used for undergraduates only until September, when the first unit of the Fourth house is scheduled for completion. "But expect some off-campus housing will be main, even after the Fourth House built," Miss Winslow said...