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...Indians-is PLATO (for Programmed Logic for Automatic Teaching Operations). Developed in the 1960s by the University of Illinois and Control Data Corp., PLATO is an exemplary teacher containing more than 8,000 hours of courseware, much of it in a continuous curriculum. Thus if a youngster forgets a point from an earlier lesson, PLATO will search its prodigious memory and patiently recapitulate...
...College Board, like most centers of power, can be a very comfortable place to work. The lunch spreads are excellent (though not as good as at the notoriously plush ETS plantation in Princeton, N.J.), and quality doughnuts give staff meetings--to which, as a bright-eyed youngster, I was kindly invited--an air of more optimism than the subject matter demands...
...suggesting that Williams was a predatory homosexual who also hated his fellow blacks, especially poor children. Andrew Hayes, 16, said that for a time during 1978 he saw Williams "most every day," and that Williams had tried to pay him to perform an act of oral sex. Another black youngster, 15, testified that he once accepted a ride from Williams, who began fondling him, and then parked in a secluded woods. Said the boy: "When he went to the trunk, I jumped out and ran." One witness claimed that while visiting Williams' house, he saw children's clothing...
Wilder attained a U.S. Chess Federation ranking of "Master" at age 13, the youngest person to achieve that honor since former world champion Bobby Fisher. Contacted yesterday at his New Jersey home, where he is recovering from a bout of mononucleosis, the cocky youngster said he hasn't than five minutes thinking about any one move...
...Fade-In. Ragtime piano, please. Former Heavyweight Champ Gene Tunney has long since hung up his Everlasts for a career in business by the time his son is born. The kid spars a bit as a youngster but eventually picks politics over pugilism, becoming California Senator John Tunney, 47. The Hook. John, now an ex-Senator, is asked to portray his late father in Sting II, the follow-up to the 1973 original, The Sting. It stars Jackie Gleason, 65, and Mac Davis, 40, in the snap-brim, wing-tipped, confidence-man roles created by Paul Newman and Robert Redford...