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...editor of Harvard Magazine, John Bethell, 53, spends much of his working day sitting in front of a word processor. He had not been very active out of the office either until, sometime around his 40th birthday, he decided to work on conserving "what physical health I had and even to improve on it, if it wasn't too late." Now he takes stairs two or three at a time, skis whenever he can and runs 20 to 30 miles a week, often jogging his five final commuter miles from Boston's North Station to his office near Harvard Square...
...last week McNulty (now the widowed Mrs. John Mauchly), Eckert and 500 computer enthusiasts gathered at a "black-tie optional and hackerwear essential" party at Boston's Computer Museum to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the dedication of the first all-electronic digital computer. On that day in 1946, ENIAC in 20 seconds performed a mathematical calculation that would otherwise have required 40 girl hours to complete. Newspapers headlined the performance. It "solves the unsolvable," reported the Philadelphia Inquirer. Indeed, many experts mark ENIAC's feat as the beginning of the modern computer...
FOOTNOTE: *The reference was to six pairs of $300 eyeglasses that Ortega purchased during a visit to New York City for the 40th anniversary of the United Nations in October...
Arafat soon suffered another serious diplomatic blow. Under heavy U.S. pressure, including intimations that Reagan would cancel his own planned visit this week, the General Assembly backed away from a proposed invitation to the P.L.O. chairman to speak during the U.N.'s 40th-anniversary celebrations...
...importance will be reaffirmed this week, when the largest gathering of world leaders in history--some 80 heads of state and government, including President Reagan, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher of Britain and Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi of India --congregate at U.N. headquarters in New York City to honor the 40th anniversary of the ratification of the U.N. Charter. Reagan and about 25 other leaders are expected to sit down together on Wednesday at a diplomatically designed round table in the delegate lounge for what may be the ultimate power lunch. Throughout the week, the visiting potentates will deliver uplifting speeches...