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...ball, the space-age sound is no auditory accident. Forget thwack or clink -- think of a high-performance computer firing up. The low- tech ball, meanwhile, has landed 20 to 30 yds. farther down the fairway than you expected. "I've played for 61 years," says 12-handicapper Thomas Dight, 76, a retired Long Island, New York, school superintendent who prowls the links all summer long in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire. "I've never seen anything like...
...computing section of the machine, which carries out electronically the commands issued to it by the sequencing drum, can multiply two 16-dight numbers in a fraction over twelve thousands of a second. It can add these figures in one third of that time. Constants which are stored in the "memory system" also enable the arithmetic unit to compute automatically such functions as sine, cosine, and logarithms...
...nomination distorts his image in the public eye. In the case of Candidate Smith, his enemies see him more and more as a subtle knave of Rum and Romanism wearing the stripes of Tammany. His friends, in turn, are prone to exalt him as a Galahad of the masses, dight in spotless, and stripeless, armor. Actually, of course, he is simply a 54-year-old up-from-the-bottom man whose profession has been politics, whose acquired technique is state-government, whose ambition is what he calls "the highest office in the world." In acquiring his technique he found that...
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...York Evening World calmly and cleverly ripped a page out of society's playbook, announced a $1,000 "treasure hunt." The Evening World's democratic clientele had heard about Edward of Wales' crawling on hands and knees through alleys in London's Limehouse district, accompanied by gorgeously dight female companions, nosing out clues to pots of gold. They had heard of young swells and sylphs of upper Park Ave. riding hilariously about Manhattan in limousines, sending their chauffeurs into Pierre's or Tiffany's to inquire for neatly enveloped hints that had been left there by committees employed to entertain...