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...Bizmac is only the prototype of even better computers that will be capable of running entire factories. Tomorrow's great brain will start up machinery, feed in raw materials, switch from one product to the next as orders come in, convey parts to assembly lines, put them together, inspect, box, band and load finished products into freight cars and trucks...
...Socks off, "Mrs. Parker ordered, and there was an expectant hush while she picked a winner. The losers sulked prettily and than gathered around the winner to inspect her in envy. Metatarsal arches are important to the class, the instructor said, because the participants are taught how to walk well on them. "Of course girls naturally swing more than boys would," Mrs. Parker continued, "because they have a wider base to work...
Faced with the ambiguous yet strenuous demands of medical schools, harried premeds are often uncertain about the most propitious undergraduate preparation. Since medical schools urge a broad liberal arts background, and at the same time narrowly inspect grades in science, hopefuls cast about for the easiest way of satisfying these two divergent demands. Some of the more daring concentrate in non-honors in English, but most drift quietly into either Biology or Biochemistry. Both of these allow considerable freedom to take courses in outside fields, yet give the premed the comforting feeling that he can throw most of his energies...
Slipping informally into London a year after his atrocities, Haynau stopped one day to inspect the Barclay and Perkins Brewery. No sooner had he scrawled his name in the guest book than the brewers -as the Illustrated London News of Sept. 14, 1850 put it-set up "the most fearful yells and execrations." Neighborhood draymen advanced on The Hyena with their heavy whips, shouting: " 'Oh, this is the fellow that flogged the women, is it!'" A flying squad of police finally dragged him, bloody and beaten, to the safety of a police boat, and, "in the course...
...Jacksonville airport. By last week he had reconsidered, decided instead to forgo the aerial junket in favor of rolling down the road a piece in Montgomery for the annual Blue-Gray (North v. South) Bowl game. Drawled Kissin' Jim jovially: "But I reserve the right to inspect them Jacksonville runways at any time...