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...Rand trial was a lengthy and thorough process, and after reviewing the trial transcript of 20,667 pages, the judge took seven months before handing down a statement that included this sentence: "Eckert and Mauchly did not themselves first invent the automatic electronic digital computer, but instead derived that subject matter from one Dr. John Vincent Atanasoff." Elsie Atanasoff Whistler Rockville...
...much of the lore surrounding the subject has been exaggerated. ATLA analyzed several cases that insurers regularly trot out to prove that the system has got out of hand and found that the facts did not quite support the versions that have passed into insurance folklore and public print, although one or two, even after correction, still sound odd. Some examples...
...John Young charges that safety was sacrificed to "launch-schedule pressure." Young, 55, a highly respected veteran of shuttle or bits and Apollo moon flights, warned of an "awesome" list of safety problems, including a runway at Florida's Kennedy Space Center that is too short, too rough and subject to erratic weather. While gliding the 100-ton shuttle into Kennedy rather than onto the dry lake beds at Ed wards Air Force Base in the California desert "may be a wonderful political policy," Young wrote his NASA bosses in January, "it is not an intelligent technical policy." Shuttle Inquiry...
...enormous extent of the President's memory impresses me," says Morris. On almost any subject from the past half-century that Morris has raised, Reagan has had an observation based on firsthand experience: the Depression, the Smoot-Hawley Tariff, the rise of fascism, name it. Nothing escapes Morris' scrutiny. He has become convinced, for instance, that that lush, indestructible head of dark hair plays a part in the imagery of perpetual Reagan youth and thus in his remarkable leadership...
...much useless and complicated factuality." Not a good state for a sportswriter. But as a fictional character dealing with loss and solitude, Bascombe accounts for many affecting moments. His attempt to interview a former football player confined to a wheelchair is every journalist's nightmare: a hostile subject who undermines the project. The breakup with Nurse Vicki reveals that chilling instant when involved parties realize they have little in common. The sad truth about one's limits of interest and sympathy unfolds when a man Bascombe hardly knows insists on confessing his homosexual affair...