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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Worming his way up through a big mound of original biographical information forms turned over to him by the publishers of Who's Who in America, Chicago Bookseller Ralph G. Newman emerged to announce that he had unearthed scads of tidbits on how the Who's Whoers see, or saw, themselves. Some of Biographile Newman's findings in his initial browsing among more than 1,000,000 forms: Dwight Eisenhower is "about the only man" who keeps on shortening rather than lengthening his write-up. Harry S. Truman keeps insisting that the S is a full middle...
...M.I.T. in 1941), Inertial Guidance is based on the familiar principle that keeps a child's gyroscopic top from falling: a rapidly spinning wheel will resist forces working to twist it from the plane in which it is revolving. A gyroscope sufficiently free of outside disturbances-e.g., friction-will maintain an unvarying spin axis in relation to the "fixed" stars-or any other points of reference-no matter on what path it is carried by the motion of a vehicle or the rotation of the earth. Such a gyroscope is one element of Inertial Guidance. The other element...
...Price Class. Ford Fairlane 500 "6," 22.2534 m.p.g., 52.5181 t.m.p.g.; Chevrolet Bel Air "8," 21.2636 m.p.g., 49-4378 t.m.p.g.; Chevrolet Bel Air "6," 21.4948 m.p.g., 49.0080 t.m.p.g.; Rambler Rebel "8," 21.6214 m.p.g., 47.8914 t.m.p.g.; Ford Fairlane 500 "8," 19.1567 m-p-g-, 45-4013 t.m.p.g...
...Martin Balsam), for instance, is a phys. ed. instructor in a city high school, 30-some, decent and a little dumb. Three (Lee J. Cobb) is the boss of a messenger service, a dispositional bully who would rather punch somebody than stand up to his own problems. Four (E. G. Marshall) is a broker so coldblooded he never even sweats. Seven (Jack Warden) is a marmalade salesman who can really spread it on, and who is all for rushing the defendant to the chair so that he can hurry off to a seat of his own-at the evening ball...
...Roswell G. Ham Jr.-Putnam...