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...dramatic as the Eastern deal was, it was only the first installment of the one-two punch that rocked the airline business in a single week. Four days later TWA Chairman Carl Icahn said the carrier would buy St. Louis-based Ozark Air Lines for $225 million. That union would increase TWA's annual traffic by 30%, to some 27 million passengers, and strengthen its position as the fourth- largest U.S. airline. The merger would be a coup for Icahn, a New York financier who gained control of TWA only seven months ago. Though a TWA-Ozark deal was already...
...despite his valiant efforts, he couldn't punch a shot past Blair...
...Programming the machine could take as long as two days as "coders" armed with detailed instructions fanned out among the panels, setting dials and plugging in patch cords in an arrangement that resembled an old-fashioned telephone switchboard. Data were fed into ENIAC in the form of IBM punch cards; a million cards were required for the monster's first assignment, a top-secret numerical simulation for the still untested hydrogen bomb. Every time a tube burned out, which happened twice a day at the start, a technician had to rummage among the tangle of wires to locate and replace...
...having visitors "see exactly what your mother or father or grandparents saw. You would walk into the Great Hall and meditate and pray, because it is like a church--it is just beautiful." There would be exhibits explaining why Ellis had become "an island of tears," and "you could punch a computer and find out what boats your parents came on." Park Service officials in turn dismissed this as "an ethnic Disneyland...
...bank of computer-synthesizers, which alter and transform them according to a predetermined program and project them out again through loudspeakers hung over and around the audience. The drama lies in the confrontation between the acoustic and the amplified instruments. Ghostly trills float above rumbling repeated figures, brasses punch out long discordant lines, and the shimmering whoosh of woodwinds fills the air. Repons is a journey into the soul of the 20th century, a harsh but exhilarating blend of music and machine. Its only flaw is that it does not go far enough. In 1981, when Boulez premiered the first...