Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...could they keep running for twelve hours? The automatic transmissions were certain to impose an extra load on the Chaparrals' brakes-since they would be unable to gear down on Se-bring's 13 curves. Snorted Hall: "We've got heavy-duty stuff on these cars-bigger brakes, bigger tires, bigger wheels. We're prepared...
Teacher, Not Novelist. Bigger schools with more money lure bigger names in a hot new rivalry for prestige in both the creative and performing arts. Film Director Jean Renoir recently drew 400 students to his class at U.C.L.A., a figure previously reached there only by Playwright William Inge. U.C.L.A.'s theater-arts department has also snared John Houseman and Josef von Sternberg, expects to land Ingmar Bergman next fall. Its art department has had Jacques Lipchitz; its music department, Indian Sitarist Ravi Shankar, Composers Roy Harris and John Vincent - and even a whole quartet in residence, the Feri Roth...
...Inside the computer's refrigerator-like cabinet dwells an intricate network of thin wires, transistors, and hundreds of thousands of tiny magnetized metal rings, all strung together into a memory-and arithmetic-processing unit. The location of each fact stored in the computer's memory is no bigger than the tip of a match, and the computer never forgets these locations...
Though they have so far been largely excluded from management policy decisions, the men who run computer operations eventually are bound to have a bigger voice in business. Who else will understand the beasts? "There will be a small, almost separate society of people in rapport with the advanced computers," predicts Donald M. Michael, a social psychologist at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington. "They will have established a relationship with their machines that cannot be shared with the average man. Those with talent for the work will have to develop it from childhood and will be trained...
...player, or even a faster, bigger man to go along with Kendrick..."mused Coach George Harrington '59. The rest of his thought wasn't hard to guess; the team's 8-7 record could have been transformed from merely creditable to spectacular...