Word: braine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...turning point something went wrong-perhaps a failure in the Snark's guidance system. Ignoring its ground-to-electronic-brain orders, the errant missile veered sharply out of flight pattern and shot westward. When the missile's ground-locked pilots realized it was out of control, they pushed the button that was supposed to blow it up in midair. But the Snark refused to commit suicide. When last seen by radar, it was slipping over the South American horizon. Happily, it carried no warhead...
...Rossby Limit. Rossby still watches numerical forecasting, but in 1950 he began to get restless in Chicago. He had been there about ten years-the Rossby limit. Gradually, he transferred his interest to Sweden, where he hoped to find fresh contacts to keep his brain turning over...
...only policy, IBM will sell accounting and tabulating machines, either old or new, that are installed up to July 25, 1958; from then on, only new machines will be sold. Sample prices: $1,950 for a card punch v. $40 monthly rental; $1,700,000 for 700 series electronic brain v. $30,000 monthly rental...
...Louis Marx & Co.'s "Tricky Tommy-The Big Brain-Tractor" ($5) is battery-operated, has a driver who appears to shift gears when he bumps into an object, changes direction and keeps rolling...
...back and cut coupons. I like a man's world." She also finds time to care for three adopted Norwegian children, try new recipes (out of 50 cookbooks), follow the fortunes of a stable of racing thoroughbreds, sail a 12-meter racing yacht, oversee a score of philanthropies (brain tumor, cerebral palsy, other medical research). Since women control an increasing amount of the nation's wealth, says Mrs. Bay, she feels that they ought to take a greater part in the financial world. Says she: "Times have really changed on Wall Street. I'm the first woman...