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McCurdy said the Crimson's best chance will be to score in a compact block as far up front as possible. The local squad doesn't have big stars such as the Army team that last year took four of the five top spots. Nor do they have the men capable of knocking over Princeton's Bill Maxwell, Yale's Mike Stanley, or Brown's Walt Molineaux. But in a big meet such as this, with 70 runners, block scoring could more than compensate for a lack of individual standouts...
...Reclamation and Agriculture's Soil Conservation Service. A year later, President Truman's Water Resources Policy Commission proposed a basin commission with an independent chairman appointed by the President. In 1951, valley governors, led by Nebraska's Val Peterson, came out for a ten-state interstate compact, to include one federal member (with ten votes) on its "water master" governing board...
Business Brain. In Brooklyn, the Electronic Computer Corp. offered a midget-sized (6 ft. by 10 ft.) electronic brain, the Elecom 100. The compact machine will answer such practical corporate problems as the overall wage bill, taxes, etc. Capable of "remembering" 102,400 combinations of nine decimal digits each, the brain can also be used for complicated aerodynamic problems. Elecom is run from a panel on an office desk, and the answers are recorded on an electric typewriter. Price...
...submarines. Fore & aft, her plates, instead of being riveted together in overlaps, like the Queens', are welded end to end, making the hull lighter, smoother and faster. Much of her superstructure is made of aluminum to cut down weight and lessen the ship's roll. In her compact white engine rooms (two separate rooms to lessen the danger from torpedoes in time of war), oil-fired boilers supply high-pressure steam to power the turbines that drive four giant propellers. These generate enough power for a city the size of San Antonio. From dog kennels (holding 20 dogs...
...most populous, most important two-thirds of it-had climbed from defeat through vassalage to partnership with its Western conquerors. Its "contract" with the Western allies provided a peace more generous than even the most hopeful German could have imagined in the graveyard days of 1945. Its European Defense compact with the Western neighbors so recently overrun by German Panzers gave West Germans the right to have Panzers again-and the soldiers, rifles and munitions to go with them...