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...midnight wears on to 3 a.m. and then 6 a.m., the hum of conversation dies and Wean Hall becomes very quiet. But the lights burn on, the soft-drink machine on the third floor continues to dispense 16-oz. bottles, and nocturnal computerniks still sprawl before green screens, clack-clacking their instructions into the memory of a DEC-20 system...
...special track built for the all-passenger TGV service has continuous welded rails-no clickety-clack-and concrete sleepers for stability. For safety's sake, since the TGV needs about two miles to stop at 162 m.p.h., there are no level crossings. Nor are there any new tunnels, since the powerful (6,300 kw.) trains can climb gradients as steep as 3.5% at full speed. Since the train moves too fast for the driver to pick up track-side signals, a console in the cab "reads ahead" and provides digital readouts informing him of the speed he will have...
...Situation Room is in the basement of the West Wing of the White House. The low ceiling, dark walls and functional appointments give it the charm of a courthouse conference room. Machines clack away. Top Secret signs festoon the forbidding steel cabinets. Elaborate locks guard the doors and windows. The man who presides over this scene, Richard Allen, is something of an enigma himself. His public image is overshadowed by those of Henry Kissinger and Zbigniew Brzezinski, who preceded him as National Security Adviser. They resided upstairs in grander style and dominated foreign policy. Allen has shrunk the adviser...
...call to "Play ball!," the surest and happiest sign of spring, has sounded once again. The crack of the bat has replaced the clack of the auctioneer's gavel selling off free-agent flesh. Players safe in their tax shelters now worry only about being safe at first, and owners prick their ears for the sweetest music they know, the clatter of turnstiles. The baseball season has begun...
...present seems dismal enough. Though U.P.I.'s 850 reporters clack out almost 8 million words and figures a day, they are unable to match the sheer ubiquity of A.P., with 1,401 journalists. As a result, when editors are forced to cut back on their wire budgets, many drop U.P.I. in favor of the more comprehensive coverage provided by A.P. Some 1,365 U.S. newspapers belong to A.P., while 1,115 subscribe to U.P.I...