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...Your description of computers as "waited upon by crisp, young, white-shirted men who move softly among them like priests serving a shrine" brought smiles to myself and my fellow programmers. At a certain research installation we had a computer that would periodically begin rather violent vibrations whenever the random access unit was used...
This caused us little inconvenience, however, because an unknown computer operator had previously discovered that one swift kick at the center of the random access unit and precisely two feet off the floor would keep the computer still for weeks. Familiarity does breed contempt -even for computers...
...interview-based statistics on sexual practices through the late '40s. As for the present, Sanford and a team of researchers from Stanford interviewed girls at an Eastern women's college, a Western public university and a Western private university. At each, the team followed a random sample of women through their full four years, quizzed them four or five times a year. Insists Sanford: "We got to know them as well as our own daughters-or better. We are reasonably certain we have been told the truth...
ROAR LION ROAR & OTHER STORIES by Irvin Faust. 213 pages. Random House...
...random moments when Kopit tosses his thinking cap away for vaudeville, the play generates iotas of fun. One such moment of visual glee is the sight of gifted Second City Alumnus Anthony Holland apoplectically disgorging a tennis ball that has lodged between his teeth...