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...talk, the President restated his essential argument for his bill: presidential authority to slash tariffs is required to keep the European Common Market open to U.S. exports. "In May of 1962," he said, "we stand at a great divide: we must trade or fade. We must either go backward or go forward...
...years scholars have known about this dating system, but tracing astronomical motions backward for more than 2,000 years is forbiddingly time consuming for slow-working human brains. So Mathematician Bryant Tuckerman of IBM got time on a 704 computer. In 40 hours of electronic calculation the 704 riffled through reams of arithmetic and disgorged 301 tables of figures showing the positions of the moon, Venus and Mercury at five-day intervals, and of Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and the sun at ten-day intervals between 601 B.C. to A.D. Ι. The orbital equations used by the monster computer gave results...
...Deviation. When Volvo built its first auto in 1927, its engineers were so inexperienced in the field that the car bolted backward when thrown into first gear. Today, however, Volvo factories swarm with lynx-eyed inspectors so uncompromising that suppliers are apt to find entire shipments of parts rejected for a minor deviation that many auto companies would let pass. Such rigid adherence to standards comes straight from Volvo's incisive Managing Director Gunnar Engellau, 55, who coldly compels his top executives to reduce their weight whenever they deviate from his specifications for the ideal male figure. Since Engellau...
...length of manila rope from the car and looped it in a single strand around Resnick's neck. The four took positions next to the doomed man-two on each side-and yanked the rope hard in opposite directions. The rope snapped, and Resnick fell backward to the ground. "Let me show you how to do it," he muttered. He tied the rope together in a neat knot, doubled it, and handed it to one of the young men. "Do a good job." he said, dropping to his knees. "Don't let me suffer...
Unfavorable reactions to this opinion indicated strong representation from these "backward areas" among the other members of the audience (one YAF member wore cowboy boots). Larson suggested that less "backward" states, such as Delaware, were also making strides toward voluntary union membership...