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...public-key concept may survive Shamir's master stroke. Secret codes, like fine wines, tend to improve with age. The competing code system Shamir co-authored at M.I.T. remains, for the moment, uncracked. But the discovery of so basic a flaw in the Stanford scheme is no small matter. When public-key codes first started appearing in scientific journals, Admiral Bobby Inman, then head of the National Security Agency and until recently deputy director of the CIA, worried in public about the Soviets' and other hostile nations' learning to develop uncrackable codes simply by studying published...
DIED. Roddey E. Mims, 46, White House and Capitol Hill photographer for U.P.I. and TIME whose folksy manner and sensitive camera work won him the fondness and respect of leaders from Lyndon Johnson and Hubert Humphrey to Ronald Reagan and Howard Baker; of a stroke; in Arlington, Va. Said Reagan: "He's been a part of history for so many years it just won't be the same without...
DIED. Glenn Gould, 50, eccentric, commanding piano virtuoso celebrated for his interpretations of Bach, and one of the first classical performers to concentrate on the LP recording as an art form; of a stroke; in Toronto. A Canadian-born Wunderkind who was playing the piano at 3 and composing at 5, Gould won critical acclaim as a young man for performances that pulsed with rhythmic dynamism and exuberance while retaining clarity and subtlety. He was almost as famous for such oddball habits as wearing gloves, scarf and overcoat in summer. Gould ended his concert career in 1964, concentrating after that...
...stick women continued to assault the Eagle net and less than two minutes later Forced B.C. netminder Naney Gonselves to cover the ball and thus yield a penalty stroke. Finn jerked the ball into the left corner to give the Crimson a two-goal edge...
...Once we took the stroke, that started the scoring momentum," Husky Coach Denise Descutels said after the match, explaining that breaking the deadlock gave her team an important psychological edge...