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...prediction that the number of transistors on a silicon chip will double every year; in Santa Clara, California. He will continue serving as chairman and director emeritus but will have no voting power. EXTRADITION UPHELD.Of FRANZ MEIJER 46, to the Netherlands for the 1983 kidnapping of beer magnate Alfred Heineken; in Paraguay. Meijer and four others abducted Heineken and his chauffeur in downtown Amsterdam and held them, often at gunpoint, for three weeks. Meijer fled to South America 18 years ago and has been on the Netherlands' most-wanted list ever since. He faces a 12-year sentence when...
...wheelchair, he has clocked some 4,000 km in the past couple of years, visiting friends and shopping at the weekly farmers' market. "My wheelchair is interactive," Kohli jokes. Evenings he spends with his family or eyeballing (as face-to-face meetings are called) local ham buddies over a beer at the neighborhood pub. "I gave up the Swiss climate that I loved," he says. "I thought: What use is the climate if I have to spend the rest of my life in a ghetto?" India and innovations have made him free...
...Kane, who was Circulation manager on the Crimson Business Staff from 50-51, remembers the Crimson as a "sort of center of social life," where, "at the end of the day, you'd drop in and have a beer and chat." One day while selling subscriptions, Kane met his wife, Phyllis Jackson '54, who was then a sophomore at Radcliffe. She says, "I told him I wouldn't buy a subscription unless I knew the editorial policy of the newspaper. We then found we were interested in a lot of the same things...
...carry a gun for your country, you can hoist a beer...
...will become a sort of symbol of the idiocy of our drinking laws. Ostensibly Jenna could join ROTC - okay, it would probably be the National Guard - and then be shipped off to fight a UN-sponsored war. When she?s finished fighting for the day, can she have a beer? Sure, if she?s overseas. But not on U.S. soil. It?s an old argument, but it still resonates, once you get over the deep unlikelihood of the idea of Jenna Bush joining the military...