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With a system called "Sketchpad," which he originated while a graduate student at M.I.T., a computer operator can draw a diagram of an electric circuit or a picture of something like an airplane wing, using an electronic "light pen" on a special screen...
...computer can then test the responses of the model under different conditions. If the operator adds a stress to the airplane wing, for example, the computer will show how the wing would move, and whether it would break...
...Brown has said that it is his job to convince California voters that Reagan is a right-wing extremist, and Brown's staff has unearthed and made public every right-wing statement Reagan has ever made...
...chief John McCone (now a millionaire San Marino resident), and Henry Salvatori, co-chairman of Reagan's finance committee and member of Project Alert and the Anti-Communist Voters League. Reagan's father-in-law, Chicago neurosurgeon Loyal Davis, has also contributed heavily, and recruited support among right-wing friends...
Alain Resnais's "La Guerre Est Finie" is a sombre and intellectual story of left-wing Spanish revolutionaries centered in Paris. Resnais has abandoned the strongly contrasting black-and-white tones of "Hiroshima Mon Amour" and "Last Year At Marienbad" in favor of low-contrast greys which deliberately reduce the effect of the plot's melodramatic content. Although the visual construction is simpler than that of "Marienbad" and "Muriel," Resnais does insert short scenes which represent the imagination of the hero, a tired revolutionary played brilliantly by Yves Montand...