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...such big suppliers, Texas Instruments and North American Rockwell, recently introduced their own mini-calculator models. Other giants already in the field include Litton Industries and Hewlett-Packard. As a result of such gathering competition, the stock prices of some of the smaller pioneers, notably Bowmar Instrument and Eldorado Electrodata Corp., have dropped, even though their current profits are actually climbing...
...gain time in relation to it. To be sure, the differences in time, which become significant only at speeds approaching the velocity of light (186,000 miles a second), would be extremely small at slow jet speeds - only billionths of a second. But Hafele and Keating figured that their Hewlett-Packard atomic clocks would be up to so delicate a test. The intricate timekeepers are governed by the natural frequency of the cesium atom, which, when electrically excited, vibrates precisely 9,192,631,770 times a second...
...patients, a 17-year-old student at Annandale High School in suburban Virginia. The student helped Dr. Pollner round up 4,000 youngsters, who joined him in a 32-mile march. They raised $6,000 and won pledges of funds and equipment from the United Auto Workers, Hewlett-Packard and several pharmaceutical companies. Pollner's makeshift clinic won the support of the local white population in Mississippi and last summer attracted four registered nurses and some 30 student volunteers. They helped the doctor treat up to 50 patients a day. Now, Pollner observes: "The patients got better...
...Often there can't be. And every time he looks up, there's another problem coming across his desk." Last week Packard, Laird's Deputy Secretary of Defense, finally decided to give up problem solving for the Federal Government's biggest department and return to Hewlett-Packard Company, the $350-million-a-year electronics firm that he headed before he came to Washington...
McCurdy said he believes that Rojas was only the fourth sophomore in the history of Harvard to win in an opening meet. "Walter Hewlett who did it a couple of years ago was the first sophomore in 24 years. Koerner did it in his sophomore year, and now Rojas," he said...