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...Vegas, a reporter, waiting for the word, had already dialed all but the last digit of the Hidden Well telephone number. Now he completed the call. "Liz is flipping," Eddie announced when he heard the news. "She's jumping all over the room." Said Liz: "I knew it all along. Just chalk it up to woman's psychology or intuition." Now, continued Liz, she would quit pictures (after making three more, that is). The marriage would take place on May 11, after Eddie gets a Nevada divorce, and Liz would like the ceremony to be performed by Rabbi...
...electronic innards of the Census Bureau's Univac computer whirred last week, and out popped an anxiously awaited seven-digit number: the U.S. Government's official mid-March unemployment total. In advance of the announcement this week, the precise figure was guarded like a missile blueprint. But word seeped out that the total showed no significant change from the mid-February level of 5,173,000. The hoped-for seasonal improvement was missing, but at least partly to blame for this disappointment was March's wintry weather, which delayed the spring thaw in farming and construction. Pointing...
...preoccupation of collecting works of art is probably more widespread at the present than it has been at any time before. Significant collections of modern art are numerous and continue to expand even at this period of five and six digit prices. Art has become popular and even if diamonds are still a girl's best friend, Picasso turns out to be just as sound an investment...
...page Manhattan telephone book-any figure, word, chemical or mathematical symbol-and work the information at the rate of 7,200 unerringly logical operations per second. In its vast computing units (2,500 electronic tubes, three miles of wire) it can multiply a pair of 127-digit numbers and arrive at a 254-digit answer in one-third of a second. In a second it can add 4,000 five-digit figures or do 160 equally complicated long divisions. And at the end, it can produce its answers in any of four ways-flash them on a TV-like screen...
...posted a six-digit random number every day for the last month throughout the University buildings, Stephen G. Brush and Paul E. Condon, Leverett House seniors who founded the society, said...