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...zealots of the early 1970s. To "gronk out," for example, means to go to sleep; to "frobnicate" or "frob" means to fiddle with the controls of a computer. Hackerese changes along with computer technology; even the term hacker is under revisionist pressure. At Carnegie-Mellon, some hackers contend that "wizard" is a more appropriate moniker for those adept at programming...
...appeal. Among them: Hans Bethe and Isidor Rabi, winners of the Nobel Prize for Physics; Retired Admiral Noel Gayler, who was director of the National Security Agency from 1969 to 1972; Lee DuBridge, physicist and president emeritus of the California Institute of Technology; and former NASA senior Space Wizard Christopher Kraft. The petition is part of a major campaign by U.S. scientists to head off an extension of the arms race into space. Although Andropov's response noted that Moscow had presented a draft treaty to the United Nations in 1981 calling for a ban on weapons in space...
...Imperial Wizard sought to strike an upbeat note. "This will not hamper our operations. It preserves our cash flow and freezes our obligation. We will pay all creditors 100% plus interest, and that includes the IRS," declared Wilkinson, whose wife Barbara, the Klan secretary, signed the documents. "But you won't find that bookkeeper around here anymore...
...riddled with afflictions. Doug Henning, 35, may be America's premier illusionist, number his impish persona in eight TV specials and the longrunning 1974 extravaganza The Magic Show. But there are three things he cannot do onstage: sing, dance and act. To compensate, he cannily plays history's greatest wizard and surrounds himself with kinetic performers...
...than he could shake a wand at. Many of them had never been seen since the days of Houdini and Blackstone; none has ever been performed so adroitly. Even fellow magicians gaped at Merlin's entrance in a five-inch bubble that mysteriously expanded to life size before the wizard emerged. The other illusions were no less astonishing. On center stage, Debby instantaneously vanished...