Word: elements
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...publisher of the liberal Republican Advance has attacked the conservative National Review as a "destructive element of the Republican Party," charging that the magazine's attitude is "If I can't win, I'll take my marbles and go home...
...current five share everything from gifts and dormitories to one big library and a common business office. They attract top professors because they offer both graduate and undergraduate teaching. The result is more quality at less cost, and something more. Provost Robert J. Bernard calls it "the element of competition-the highest level of performance becomes the standard of performance, not only in teaching and research, but even down to competitive sports...
...Illinois boy who has made his mark in Canada, Theodore Jonathan Emmert, 45, likes to play parlor games that involve the element of chance, almost invariably wins by swiftly reckoning the mathematical probabilities. Last week Emmert took on a job that calls for both skill and luck: the presidency of A. V. Roe Canada Ltd., a $270 million complex that produces aircraft, steel, engines and buses. Because Canada makes no missiles, Roe has fared worse than most planemakers in the switch away from aircraft; last year its sales fell 27% to $242 million. Emmert, who began as a production-line...
...Selectric," as it is called, is shaped like an ordinary typewriter, but its carriage does not move, nor do the keys extend into levers that make the impression on paper. Instead, the Selectric has mounted inside its case a spherical-shaped, pingpong-ball-sized metal typing element bearing all the familiar 88 alphabetical characters, numerals and punctuation symbols. When the typist strikes the keyboard, the typewriter's motor rapidly tilts and rotates the element on its axis as it moves across the paper, bringing the proper character into position for printing. The element is then rocked against ribbon...
Unlike other typewriters, the Selectric is not stuck with one permanent type face. Typists can change type styles in a matter of seconds by opening the machine's cover and replacing one typing element with another bearing one of the six different type faces supplied by IBM. Typing ribbons come in plastic cartridges that snap into place and do not have to be threaded on reels by the typist. Paper is inserted by being placed against the roller, which automatically feeds it into the machine with the pressing of a button. The Selectric comes in two sizes...