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...this night he is running through the SPICE program on a $70,000 Symbolics LM2 computer. The project's goal: to provide a network (a group of interconnected computers) with almost unlimited memory and computation power. He also uses the terminal to play games-Star Wars, Splines and Worm-devised by students and faculty members at C.M.U. and other schools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Pittsburgh, Hacking the Night Away | 5/9/1983 | See Source »

...Chairman Yasir Arafat, living in the dream world that Sartawi disdained, deserves much blame for this latest outbreak of hit-and-run political murder. True, it was a splinter faction led by one of Arafat's worm enemies that ordered the slaying and took credit for it soon after. But it was Arafat himself who had effectively undermined Sartawi's already slim chances of survival last February when he abruptly removed the doctor from the speaker's list at the Palestine National Council meeting in Algiers and then ejected him from the session entirely. Arafat made it clear to every...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mafioso Politics | 4/19/1983 | See Source »

John Birch's Belmont headquarters are quiet enough. There's a receptionist or two. The carpet has a dull, worm-out and lifeless look. McManus's cramped office is strewn with assorted books, papers, and memorabilia, and on the wall hangs a portrait of Marine General Chester Puller, a Korean War hero...

Author: By Andrew S. Doctoroff, | Title: Birchers Fight for Acceptance | 2/17/1983 | See Source »

Late Night with David Letterman (NBC). Laid-back and amiably hip, Letterman presides over a menagerie of stupid pet tricks, oddball celebrities and the man with the worm farm. A lullaby for the eccentric insomniac...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The BEST OF 1982: Books | 1/3/1983 | See Source »

...Manville action drew angry responses from asbestos victims and their attorneys. "They're hoping we'll die off," said Bob Speake, 66, a retired Manville employee who suffers from asbestosis. "A lot of the ones I know already have. They're trying to worm out of having to pay." Said Robert Sweeney, a Cleveland attorney who represents 268 claimants in asbestos-related suits: "It's an outrageous abuse of the judicial process. Chapter 11 is not intended for corporations with $2.2 billion in sales that are operating in the black." Vowed Ronald L. Motley, a Barnwell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Manville's Bold Maneuver | 9/6/1982 | See Source »

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