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According to a "70 percent proposal" discussed yesterday by the Student-Faculty Committee on Housing, only 70 percent of a house's quota of rising sophomores would be drawn from the first choice round, with the remaining space in the House to be assigned at random...
...getting into the software business. Late last year McKesson, the drug and healthcare giant (1983 sales: $4 billion), acquired a half interest in SKU, a software distributor. Both CBS and Warner Communications have started software units. Also investigating or developing their own software are publishing nouses (Simon & Schuster and Random House), toy firms (Fisher-Price and Parker Bros.) and movie companies (United Artists, MCA, Walt Disney and Lucasfilm). But small firms seem to do best in the innovative world of applications programs. Cautions Software Publishing's Fred Gibbons, who runs one of the fastest-growing companies: "Being big does...
...downtown Santiago, police dispersed them with water cannons, tear gas and clubs. By the end of the week, seven demonstrators had died, about 30 had been wounded and 400 had been arrested in eight cities. Police and soldiers did not roam the streets shooting and clubbing protesters at random, as they had done during the past five protests since last spring. Still, the death toll from all these demonstrations stands high...
...enormity verging on, no, surpassing outrage." At this level of ambition, The Paper Men invites unfortunate comparisons with Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire, the best and funniest work yet on the usurpation of a creative mind. Golding's book cannot match the Nabokovian magic; it is a random collection of jigsaw pieces jumbled together from different puzzles. -By Paul Gray...
...random sample of the American population [or so we might hope] would probably reveal a fairly low number of affirmatives to these questions, a quick survey of Reagan appointees could turn up something else again...