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Ironically, the industry's prodigious ability to produce the chips is also its Achilles' heel; the danger that chip makers could eventually produce far more and far more powerful chips than the market can absorb is real. By 1985, according to C. Lester Hogan, vice chairman of Fairchild Camera & Instrument Corp., it will be feasible to build a pocket calculator "that will be more powerful than, and almost as fast as," the $9 million Cray-1, built by Cray Research Inc. in Chippewa Falls, Wis., and recognized as the mightiest computer in the world...
...think cocaine is a harmless substance," Dr. Lester Grinspoon, associate professor of Psychiatry and coordinator of the association workshop, said yesterday, but added that criminal law is a "clumsy instrument" for controlling the use and abuse of the drug...
Although Art Blakey has zipped up his cymbal bags and gone away, ample percussive talents have arrived in Boston to fill the void. Billy Cobham is playing tonight at the Paradise, and Jack DeJohnette is appearing tomorrow night at the Berklee Performance Center with John Abercrombie, Eddie Gomez, Lester Bowie, and special guest bass player Eberhard Weber...
...L.B.J. Ranch was a little too far away for regular visits, so Lyndon Johnson used to chopper off to the camp with three or four friends in tow. He also found the retreat an ideal locale for some Viet Nam War jawboning with skeptics like Canadian Prime Minister Lester Pearson. Recalls L.B.J. Aide Jack Valenti: "It was a frosty meeting, but they parted friends. There's something about Camp David that makes you feel softer...
...sought to change English Canada from within. Convinced of the need to fight rising separatism, he entered national politics in 1965 as a Liberal member of Parliament from Mount Royal in Montreal. Three years later, after serving as Canada's Justice Minister and Attorney-General, he succeeded the late Lester ("Mike") Pearson as Prime Minister. During Trudeau's first election campaign, young girls?including his future wife?flung themselves at him. Businessmen asked for his autograph. Crowds gathered wherever he went. Said Trudeau in those palmy days: "However Canadians are classified, the needs of each must be recognized...