Word: accounts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...transistors and other semiconductor cousins are manufactured with such precision and close tolerances that a new generation of computers is being designed for them. The circuitry of new missile systems, where space and weight are at a premium, calls for millions of semiconductors. Industrial and military uses account for only one-third of semiconductor units manufactured, but two-thirds of dollar volume. Computer builders are expected to increase their purchase of semiconductors tenfold within the next two years...
...fostering varied student-faculty discussion somewhere between the extremes of lecture-hall and dining room table, the Houses would perform one of the most needed functions at Harvard. Hopefully, future discussion on non-Honors tutorial will take this need into account...
...year), whose retail sales have rocketed from $2,250,000 to $35 million in only ten years. Says Revell's 41-year-old President Lewis H. Glaser: "Assembling models is the nation's leading hobby. It even beats stamp collecting." This year total model kit sales will account for $75 million of the $1.5 billion spent on toys. Among Revell's new models for Christmas buying: a three-stage manned rocket to the moon (price: $1.98) and a Jupiter-C intermediate-range missile (price $1.98). To attract girls, there will be $1.98 life-size models of Walt...
...autobiographical reverie evoking the summer of 1914, "that last summer when life still appeared to pay heed to individuals, and when it was easier and more natural to love than to hate." Of the earlier tales, only The Childhood of Luvers, a sensitively wrought, Proustian account of a girl at puberty accepting her womanhood, is memorable...
Memoirs of Field-Marshal Montgomery. In this big, incisive, good-humored account, Monty is sometimes not much nicer to his friends and allies than he was to his wartime enemies...