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Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 29, No. 8. 1966.

[introduction]

From a recent announcement: "A computer demonstration will be held …"

From a recent announcement: "A computer demonstration will be held …"

In The United States, there is a weekly tragedy. A boy sits in his university dormitory and grinds his teeth. His blue cord suit hangs pristine in closet. His greenbacks, rolled up in his trouser pocket, press against his leg. His Mustang stands quietly outside the window, poised to take off for adventure.

The Pages of Samuelson's Economics lie unturned in front of his eyes. If he thinks about it all much more, his eyes may begin to swim. For it's Saturday night, and he doesn't have a date. Oh. why can he not find a woman? Oh, to be a getter of women!

Somewhere else in vast America, at the same moment in time, a young woman sits. She listens to the radio, and distractedly runs a comb through auburn hair. The open Samuelson on her desk is also ignored. Her dorm is strangely quiet tonight. Almost all the other girls are "out." Oh. to be a getter of men!

Oh, if only someone, somehow, could bring these two melancholy spirits together! They would be snatched from tragedy. promised golden times. If only someone would save them, and the thousands and thousands of other young Americans who are also yearning to reach the sunfilled, sandy shore!

Wait! Check that emphatic teardrop.