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...describes as "old and uninteresting" and which is now used principally for printing output; to the IBM 360-50, a more modern affair which, among its other duties, analyzes data from the Cambridge Electron Accelerator; to the two IBM 7094's, giant computers which solve complex problems in organized batches, hence the title "batch-processing...
While it is a common practice for Governors to grant Christmastime reprieves, no one can remember the release of such a huge batch of prisoners at any one time.º Maddox, however, was so pleased by the success of his discharge of 147 teen-age inmates in September (only nine have since had difficulty with the law) that he plans to make wholesale opening of prisons a Georgia yuletime tradition. "We realize," he said, "that in releasing this many, some will slip up. But most of all we are concerned with those who will not." This is his way, Maddox...
Most record companies fill their preholiday releases with seasonal sounds: Christmas carols, a Handel oratorio or two. This fall the sounds from Columbia seem to be designed for Christmas 2067. In one batch last month, on its three constituent labels, the company issued as its entire "classical" release no fewer than 17 recordings of contemporary music, most of it on the farthest fringes...
...season the Crimson played two of its less inspired games against the Huskies to come up with a loss and an overtime win. But the big guns that have carried Northeastern hockey for the last three years--Don Turcotte, Jim Leu, and Gary Thornton--have given way to a batch of sophomores...
...first it looked as if a Tijuana dairy operator had carelessly put a batch of spoiled milk on the market. A few children died, local authorities impounded all local milk, and a tragic, but minor, episode seemed closed. It was not; Tijuana's children kept dying for no apparent cause. By week's end 17 youngsters were dead-and more than 300 others had been treated for poisoning at local hospitals. Lab tests turned up traces of a deadly pesticide called parathion in the tissues of victims, and the poison was soon traced to bread from their tables...