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...mathematical equations. The latest meteorological figures from most of the U.S. and 1,000 miles out into the Atlantic will be fed into it.* Then the machine will start computing. In less than two hours, it will follow 40 million "instructions" and arrive at a 24-hr, forecast. The same job, using all available figures, would take a human weatherman 10,000 times as long...
...York's Air Pollution Control laboratory coinage, meaning smoke plus haze. *When the average temperature during the day is below 65°, each degree of the drop is called a degree day. Thus, a 24-hr, period during which the average temperature is 50° measures 15 degree days...
AMERICAN Airlines will cut three hours off its previous 11-hr, flight time from New York to the West Coast when it puts its new Douglas DC-7s into service this week. With the 365 m.p.h. DC-7s, Douglas expects to keep ahead of Lockheed in the race for commercial honors. The company has just landed a $25 million order from Eastern Air Lines for 12 of the big ships, one of the few times that Eastern has bought four-engine craft from anyone but Lockheed...
...story. "The Post story--"Lyons says, "all their stories on the Harvard work for the Air Force, come out of the record of hearings held in Washington last June or July. It comes out of the record of the Senate Appropriations Committee hearings on the armed forces appropriations bill, HR 5969. The Post reporter has got up to page 1441 in the record, where Trenor Gardner, special assistant to the Air Secretary for research and development expressed to Senator Ferguson dissatisfaction "with both the scope and amount of money being spent in this area." Whether he meant just at Harvard...
...Wedgeport, Nova Scotia, Mexico's Dr. Rodolfo Arujo won the Tenth International Tuna Tournament for his country's team by landing the match's largest tuna, a 723-lb. bluefin, taken in 1 hr. 45 min. Next, in order of finish: Argentina, Cuba, The Netherlands. The U.S. team failed to boat a fish...