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...associate professor of mathematics, and in fact helped write the M.I.T. code that competes head-on with Stanford's. Last spring, back in his spartan, second-floor office in the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, the lean, blue-jeaned mathematician settled the old wager: he found a way to unravel the original Stanford system. The code Shamir broke after four years of hard work was no Buck Rogers-Dick Tracy cipher. It was a charter member, along with the M.I.T. code, of the new "public key" family of encryption schemes, so called because one of their secret code...
There is another industry quivering because of the strike: gambling. Largely because it has been so well televised, pro football has become the national gambling medium. People who wager on nothing else may bet on office football pools. Wagering on professional football is said to provide half the annual income of the legal bookmakers. The Barbary Coast Casino and Sports Book in Las Vegas handled more than $1 million worth of N.F.L. bets on each of the two weekends before the strike, says Owner Michael Gaughan. Vic Salermo, operator of Leroy's Sports Book, frets that the strike will...
...Blueprint for Union" [March 22] of Roman Catholics and the Anglican Communion is unlikely to end their separation. The "emotional controversies" referred to in your article are as important as the items that were covered in the commission's discussions. I would be willing to wager that nothing will ever come of the illustrious papers composed by the academicians of both groups...
Another intriguing item: the pickled brains of some former Smithsonian officials. It is said that one of the officials, a pioneering geologist named Major John W. Powell, donated his gray matter in order to settle a wager with a colleague about whose brain was larger. Curators are not sure what happened to the colleague's brain...
Reagan's attorney, Donald Wager, maintained that only legal "technicalities" were at issue. Protested Michael...