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From: daw@houxs.UUCP (Dave Wolverton)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: More fun stuff about Cobol
Message-ID: <509@houxs.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 31-Aug-87 09:46:17 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 31 09:46:17 1987
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Summary: Slightly more respect for Adm. Hopper than that

In article <1119@dasys1.UUCP>, wlinden@dasys1.UUCP (William Linden) writes:
>   Hopper retired last year, with the rank of Rear Admiral. N.Y. Times
> coverage of the departure of the grandmother of Cobol consisted
> of a photograph, and a caption which mentioned only that she was
> "the last of the World War II WAVES on active service"!

It was a little better than that.  I have a clipping on my wall from the N.Y.
Times dated the following day, which devotes 19 column inches of text, plus
a nice photo, to Adm. Hopper's retirement.

Dave Wolverton
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