Word: block
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gardner is constantly on the lookout for new uses of the data already in the computers' memory drums. A service called Gasoline Profit Index, for example, helps oil companies find locations for service stations by providing a block-by-block profile of any neighborhood in any U.S. city: how many cars are owned there, what makes and vintage, by men or women, of what age. Since Cadillacs use more gasoline than Falcons, and eight-cylinder engines more than six-cylinders, since women do not drive as much as men, it is possible to estimate down to the number...
...entire cities, was started four years ago. After last year's Detroit riots, for example, Polk supplied the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders with data about the 12th Street area, a focal point of the upheaval. Polk was able to report, among other things, that in each block along 12th Street there were 26 or more households headed by a woman, a fact that suggested many broken homes. Now, Polk has contracts with ten cities, from Pittsburgh to Asheville, N.C., to supply urban statistical data. Since it already has most of the information stored in computers...
...learned team soccer at Harvard," Hardy says. "For example, at Glengyle they put the big guys on defense to block the other team's advances, and the offense consisted of fast players who got the ball from the defenders, dribbled all the way upfield by themselves, and tried to score...
Conway's first interception occurred deep in Quaker territory and set up Harvard's first score. After Penn's defense stopped Gatto at the Penn 25 yard line, Ray Hornblower swept right behind a vicious block by fullback Gus Crim and knifed his way to paydirt...
Harvard's defense prevented the extra point when Cramer and Neil Hurley crashed through Penn's battered offensive line to block Eliot Berry's extra point effort...