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Maspons, the team's leading hitter in league games (.471), went five for eight yesterday with three doubles. Freshman catcher Jim DePalo (.368 overall) extended his hitting string to 12 games with his five-for-seven, five-RBI outing. Sophomore third baseman Bobby Kay (.326) socked three doubles and a triple. The list goes...
...whole thing works out into rather a miracle," Elliot Forbes '41 said yesterday of the Beethoven string quartet Op. 131 Gesturing at the class during the last lecture of his 26-year Harvard career, he went on. "In a fugue, it isn't so much drama as eloquence. It's a kind of adventure...
April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, string Dull roots with spring rain. T.S. Eliot, The Wask Land...
...public rites of exorcism led to a series of grisly deaths. In one notorious incident, Party Member Liu Wenxue enlisted a self-styled witch to exorcise his wife, who had just received hospital treatment for heart disease. The witch proceeded to puncture the woman's nose with a knife, string her up to the ceiling and jerk her neck with a whip. Four days later, the patient died. Liu received only a mild official reprimand...
Despite such a string of successes, Hewlett-Packard has stumbled badly in personal computers. In 1976 one of its engineers, Stephen Wozniak, designed an early personal computer, but managers were scornful about its prospects. Wozniak thereupon left to help start Apple Computer. Finally, in 1980, Hewlett-Packard introduced its own personal computer, the HP 85, and followed it up with nine other models. But the products were aimed primarily at engineers, and since they were produced by five separate HP divisions, they ran different software, used three different keyboards, and were marketed in an uncoordinated manner. Result: they sold poorly...