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...very scary--I think I have the solution to my major "bug." Now all I have to do is get on a terminal. Catching on to the rules of the game I have signed up for a slot, but I am a little anxious because there is no terminal watcher in the room to help me in case...Still I am very hopeful. Making the changes takes almost an hour; I keep forgetting to hit ")" or "(" or ";". Frustration grows, but suddenly my head clears, revived by a cherry, bold voice behind me saying gosh, gee, the wait...
...this way. "The fucking machine, if it wasn't already dead, I'd kill it." Yes, yes, I know what she means but my head is down on the keyboard waiting for the half-hearted cheer and agitated, pathetic energy that greets The Machine's rebirth. A terminal watcher walks by and says 'I think we have a casualty," and I wonder he is referring to me or the terminal, whose plug I just undid when I crossed my legs. I make a mental note never to do that again in the computer's presence...
...worked feverishly to line up votes for Burke at last week's meeting of the Democratic Central Committee, which would endorse one of the two rivals. Telephones jangled all over Chicago, and if arms could not be twisted, ears could certainly be reddened. Said a longtime city hall watcher: "She created the kind of atmosphere where everyone knows that vengeance can be exacted. She doesn't have to threaten. They know what the-message is: 'Do it my way or else...
...number of students in introductory computer courses has vastly increased, Denise D. Williamson '82, a terminal watcher at the Science Center, said yesterday. Even so, crowding on the terminals so far has gone down slightly, she added...
...Thomas, president of the Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, disturbs professional authors--he writes both infrequently and splendidly. His only other book, The Lives of a Cell, won a National Book Award in 1974, and his new book, The Medusa and the Snail continues with more notes of a biology watcher...