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With their sharklike snouts and flat fannies, the homemade Chaparrals of Oilman Jim Hall, 28, would not win any automotive beauty contests. Their Chevrolet engines put out 450 h.p. compared with 385 h.p. for the Fords and 350 for the Ferraris, but instead of manual gear boxes, they had-that's right-automatic transmissions. "Better acceleration," Hall insisted, and in a practice run for last week's twelve-hour Prix de 1'Endurance, he tooled around Sebring's 5.2-mile course in 2 min. 57.6 sec.-nine seconds better than the fastest Ford...
...today's standards, Mark I was as slow and awkward as a manual adding machine. In two years it was shoved aside by the University of Pennsylvania's celebrated ENIAC, which, as the first electronic computer, used 18,000 vacuum tubes as circuits and quick-acting switches. Though they were a big advance, vacuum tubes proved too expensive, too unreliable and too bulky: ENIAC weighed 30 tons and took up 1,500 sq. ft. of floor space. Until 1954, when Remington Rand (now Sperry Rand) first sold its UNIVAC to industry, the few computers in the U.S. were...
...were opposed to the Chinese-Indonesian game. The General Assembly was more interested in achieving some resolution of the U.N.'s continuing financial crisis. At week's end, Subandrio agreed to accept $100 million in aid from Peking plus "military experience"-presumably Mao's guerrilla-warfare manual of arms. A joint communique also attacked unnamed countries "trying to forestall" an international Afro-Asian conference to be held in Algiers in late spring, where Peking may well try to promote its "R.U.N...
...honor system, without proctors. At Colorado Springs, students may take the same tests days apart. As potential officers and gentlemen, cadets are expected not to cheat. Those who fail to report a cribber are subject to the same stiff punishment (expulsion) as the cheater himself.* The cadet manual warns that "there will be no shading, no equivocation, no quibbling among honorable...
General Creed. Politesse has grown so elaborate between whites and Negroes, jokes Godfrey Cambridge, that there has come to be what he calls "the manual of arms." He tells about a time when he and a white man were waiting for an elevator. "He was dressed just like I was, with an attache case too. You know, they copy everything we do. After the doors of the elevator opened, we accidentally bumped into each other. He leaped aside and said, 'After you. As a responsible member of the white community, I wouldn't want to set a spark...