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To compile his Concordance to Euripides, Classicist James T. Allen spent 43 years arranging 250,000 index cards in a nightmare game of "philological solitaire." Had he used a computer, Allen could have done the job in twelve hours. So says Classicist James T. McDonough Jr., 27, of Philadelphia'...
The Honeymoon Machine (Avon; MGM) is the Hollywood machine in a rare moment of felicitous clank, turning out the slick, quick, funny film for which it was designed. Among the astonishingly lifelike moving parts are: Steve McQueen, a sailor (sailors are dependably hilarious); Jack Mullaney, a sailor and a Southerner...
Afterward, the visitors toured the Observatory's facilities, viewing solar movies, photographs of the skies, the moon through a telescope, and the IBM 70-90 computer in operation.
The $3.5 million computer, used primarily for satellite tracking, is now available to Harvard graduate students and can handle more calculations in four minutes than can a man in a life-time.
Transit's intricate workings [TIME, July 7] depend on an electronic system that ground stations can "inject" with information enabling the satellite to tell where it is on its orbit. Ships with proper equipment (a precision receiver and a computer) can pinpoint the moment when the satellite comes closest...