Word: abacus
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...apparently Ernest May, last year's History chairman, has lost his abacus: he allowed four tenured American History professors to take leaves this fall, leaving American History concentrators with three half-courses to choose from...
Sports Huddle fans do not take such predictions lightly. On the eve of the Miami Dolphins' 14-7 Super Bowl victory over the Washington Redskins, the Boston badmouths consulted a psychic, a bookie, two Chinese abacus experts and assorted astrologers, then correctly predicted the winner of the championship game for the fourth season...
...squid. The village's sauna features an "enzyme ion bath" in which the athletes bury themselves in a pile of fermenting cedar sawdust. Every aspect of the games, in fact, from the new $119 million subway system that rolls on noiseless rubber tires to the crack team of abacus scorekeepers who back up the computers, was arranged with super-efficiency-sometimes to a fault. For the opening ceremonies, for example, officials have decided to ground the traditional flight of uncaged pigeons. The reason: the rites will be held in the speed skating arena and "pigeons might damage the glasslike...
...producers of computer hardware-IBM, Burroughs, Control Data, RCA, NCR, Sperry Rand-have all brought out new products within the last year. Many of them are so-called "fourth generation" computers: incredibly complex instruments of astronomical calculating power. In fact, they make the original Univac I look like an abacus by comparison. Last week Honeywell-G.E. introduced its Series 6000 line of fourth-generation models (price: up to $4,500,000), which can execute 1,000,000 instructions a second...
...furnish Japan's factories not only with raw materials but also with vast markets for their goods. Today the Japanese have come closer to establishing an informal Co-Prosperity Sphere than ever before (see map, page 27). The difference is that the latter-day wako carries a soroban (abacus) instead of a sword and wears blue serge instead of the khaki of General Hideki Tojo's Imperial Army...