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...seniors were more workman like in their comments about the upcoming games. The class has seen Harvard hockey rise from the depths of an 8-15-3 season freshman year to a Beanpot championship the next season to an Ivy Division title their junior year. They feel there is still more to accomplish...
...first computer books, like Adam Osborne's 1975 classic, Introduction to Microcomputers (Osborne/McGraw-Hill; $12.50), were aimed at computer hobbyists, explaining the inner workings of the hardware down to the smallest transistor. These were quickly followed by books of software programs, like the popular BASIC Computer Games (Workman; $7.95), which provide page after page of prewritten computer codes that the reader can copy and run on his own machine. Now, as the domain of computer buyers expands, the bestsellers tend to be either step-by-step guides for new users, usually geared to specific machines, or introductory texts like McWilliams...
...second battery of renovations of the undergraduate Houses gets underway, but it immediately runs into snags in Eliot House. "We're having trouble getting the fairway between the clubhouse and K-entry," a workman explains...
...Three Mile Island in March, 1979. Yet Ford well knows that, relative to what might happen. Three Mile Island was only a minor mishap. In one incident in 1961 that the A.E.C. did not "take seriously," an entire reactor at the Commission's Idaho test station exploded when a workman, possibly bent on murder-suicide, precipitously removed a safety rod from the core of the reactor. Were this to happen in a major nuclear plant the results would be catastrophic; as Ford optimistically writes. "The forecast accident, if it occurs, will very likely mean the prompt end of commercial nuclear...
...typical response: "It's really nice... The only thing that is annoying is that you might be dressing and [a workman] is standing outside your window...