Word: dumps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from punched paper tapes. Needing no human help, they eliminated the jobs of many human operators, but as compensation, they created jobs for mathematicians to put their instructions in the number language that their brains understand. Last week M.I.T. demonstrated a second step: it had developed a gimmick to dump the mathematicians...
...mobile air compressor towed by a dump truck suddenly broke loose, lurched across the Long Island Expressway, crunched into the side of a grey 1959 Cadillac. Only passenger to escape injury: longtime (1948-57) Dodger Catcher Roy Campanella, his thickset body still crippled from an auto accident a year ago (TIME, Feb. 10, 1958). Said Roy, shaken by the mishap: "If I hadn't been strapped in, I'd have gone through the windshield...
...White House lobby Honest Harold soon got to what was on his mind: dump Dick Nixon. "There are a number of men," said he, "who could lead our Republican Party to victory in 1960-Ambassador Lodge, Governor Rockefeller, Secretary [of the Treasury] Bob Anderson and Secretary [of the Interior] Fred Sea-ton." "Can't you think of one other?" a reporter asked. Stassen glowered at him, said nothing. "What about Nixon?" asked another. Replied Harold deadpan: "I think that this election of 1958 speaks for itself in that regard. I will be doing what I can to keep...
...Harold Stassen, 51, indestructible and thick-skinned, got on a TV panel show back in Pennsylvania and hit Dump Nixon harder than ever before. He proclaimed that 1) Nixon was "the principal architect of defeat" in 1958; 2) Nelson Rockefeller, suddenly alone among Stassen's four alternatives, was "the man the Republican Party should nominate in 1960 in order to win"; 3) Pennsylvania's 70-odd-vote delegation to the G.O.P. convention in 1960 should be led either by Senator-elect Hugh Scott or by Harold Edward Stassen. As for the President of the U.S., who had chatted...
...General Kenneth Darling, Britain's tough-talking Cyprus operations chief, called it. Declared he: "Any Englishman who wants a gun may have one. But he must know how to use it. They're not a ration of potatoes." At a tent set up on an unused garbage dump outside the island's capital, Nicosia, British civilians lined up to receive .38 revolvers after demonstrating on a nearby target range that they could hit a life-sized tin terrorist at 15 ft. "You're unlikely to need more," one instructor explained. "The thing is always to look...