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Thus last week, Engineer Mosher introduced CAM, G.E.'s "Cybernetic Anthropomorphous Machine." Unlike the usual robot, the walking machine has limbs that respond to the actual movements of its human operator's arms and legs. Driven by hydraulic pressure and controlled by servomechanisms, the metal muscles exert far more force than their human counterparts. But they are attached to a sensitive feedback system that gently lets the handler "feel" what the metal limbs are doing...
...Pope Paul VI, the solemn ceremonies of Holy Week were more sorrowful than usual. On two successive days, in his most anguished public statements to date on the crisis in the Roman Catholic world, the Pope issued extraordinarily direct attacks on defecting clergy and dissent within the church...
M.I.T. may provide stronger competition than usual when it meets the Harvard tennis varsity today...
...battered varsity lacrosse team plays its first home game of the season at 3 p.m. today when it hosts M.I.T., and the Crimson may have more trouble than usual due to its beleaguered condition and improvement by the Engineers...
Harvard has had great success against M.I.T. in the past, including an 18-1 thumping last year, but coach Bruce Munro yesterday voiced caution. "M.I.T. has a better team than usual, and in our decimated condition, we're expecting to have trouble," Munro said...