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Before a race he clumps up and down the course, a fireplug figure with eyes of icy blue looking for the crack or bump that could cost a precious hundredth of a second. On the Cortina run last month, Monti won his fourth straight two-man world title by teaming with Brakeman Renzo Alvera (who ekes out a living sweeping the local rink). In the four-man competition, Monti was back in third place on the final day when he laconically informed his crew that he was going for broke. Rocketing with controlled fury down the icy run, Monti gave...
...have a new solution to the population explosion which will not restrict the birth rate. Why not have our scientists work on shrinking people to-say-one-hundredth ther present size? In this manner our world and all its natural resources will proportionately expand a hundredfold...
Cordiner's warning about price fixing might have been voiced a bit sooner. The TVA has long complained about strangely identical bids. Last May it disclosed 24 cases since 1956 of matching bids-sometimes down to a hundredth of a penny-involving 47 U.S. manufacturers. On one transformer contract, for example. General Electric, Allis-Chalmers, and Mc-Graw-Edison's Pennsylvania Transformer Division each submitted bids of $112,712; Westinghouse won the contract with a bid of $86,760. This year, competing to supply 33,000 power-line insulators, G.E. and six other companies submitted identical bids...
Next Tuesday, October 20, marks the hundredth anniversary of John Dewey's birth. In memory of the philosopher, Antonius Savides, a retired professor prominent in certain educational and psychological circles, has written down an interview he remembers having with Dewey in Lowell House some years...
...French used to say, pocketing the 5-centime change on their glass of Pernod. But this ancient expression of French thrift became meaningless when, with the fall of the franc that began with World War I, the sou gradually descended to its present poker-chip worthlessness of one-hundredth of an American cent...