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Mating by Tabulator. Both Vantress and Saglio approach their work with one goal: to get a bird that will eat the least amount of feed, grow the fastest, dress out to a completely standard bird with a minimum of waste. Thanks chiefly to this breeding, in 20 years the time and feed needed to raise a 3-lb. chicken for market have dropped from 14 weeks and 12 Ibs. of feed to 8½weeks and 6|¾ Ibs. The five-year goal: a 3-lb. chicken in six weeks...
...Colorado; the Sacramento Peak Observatory at Sunspot is owned and operated by the H.C.O. under contracts from the Air Force; and the Ft. Davis Station is also supported by Air Force funds. The latter is devoted to recording the radio noise emitted by the sun, and operates the fastest sweeping radio receiver in the world, covering the frequency range from 100 to 600 megacycles in one-twentieth of a second...
Taking Hammond's place in the 400 yd. medley relay, Bruce Hunter teamed up with Bill Murray, Doug McCartney, and Dick Seaton to turn in a time of 4:02.1. McCartney's time of 1:06 was his fastest time of the season...
...sophomore Jim Stack has already covered the distance in 1:10.2, the fastest time anywhere this season and the fourth best indoor mark in history. The best Crimson captain Al Gordon can hope for is a second-place finish ahead of Yale's John Slowlk, another outstanding runner...
...FASTEST CIVILIAN JETLINER, the Convair 880, with a rated speed of 615 m.p.h., made its maiden flight over California, will go into airline service in the spring...