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With U2 blaring out a second-story suite, freshmen lined up on the front steps of Weid Hall to cheer on the wind--"Go! Go! Go!"--as it snapped a half-dozen trees. Freshmen Adam Green and Daniel A. H. McGiffin even rigged up a windskateboard, using a towel as a sail to propel them across the Yard's debrisspattered walkways...
...internal memory capacity (2 billion bytes) and a top speed of 1.2 billion FLOPS (floating point, or arithmetical, operations per second), six to twelve times faster than its predecessor, the Cray-1, and 40,000 to 50,000 times faster than a personal computer. It outdistances the world's half-dozen other supercomputers -- machines specially designed to carry out vast numbers of repetitive calculations at incredible speeds -- and is expected to make short work of problems that have vexed scientists and engineers for decades. Says Robert Borchers, Lawrence Livermore's associate director for computations: "What took a year...
...hates to badmouth someone who doesn'v yet have a complete set of teeth, Jason Harvey is really bad. He decants iambic as if he had taken elocution lessons from Alfred Hitchcock, and he can barely be understood past the eighth row. When there are at least a half-dozen undergraduate actors and actresses at Harvard who could have pulled off the role, Kilty's choice is worse than a crime; it is a blunder...
...Farley Granger and Ricardo Montalban have all played the role, but for 34 years Yul Brynner has been the first and only King of Siam--an Oriental patriarch who is also a gigolo in jade. He is onstage perhaps half as much as the actress who plays Anna, the Englishwoman who educates the King's children; and of the half-dozen songs that still elate the memory (Hello, Young Lovers, Getting to Know You, I Whistle a Happy Tune, etc., etc., etc.), the King sings none. It matters not. By dint of dogged charisma, Brynner has identified himself with...
...budget cuts, yet this Administration has actually done nothing to improve the long-term prospects for economic growth or curb the rate of growth in government spending. Experts point out that even under best-case scenarios for the deficit, growth would have to be continuous for the next half-dozen years, hardly the stuff of reality. And as for budget cuts, Reagan hasn't made a dent: he has merely replaced which-needed social spending with $500 Defense Department hammers. The total is the same...