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...labor-hungry whirlaway of U.S. production, job discrimination against the Negro has begun to melt. Swept off farms since 1930 (when they made up 35% of rural labor), Negroes by this year made up nearly 72% of the unskilled and semiskilled manual labor force. But only about 10% of U.S. middle-class white-collar workers are Negroes...
...radar. Twenty-five miles from the target, Major Holguin, at his bombsight controls up forward, became the key man in the City of Merced: Beau Traylor had only to maintain air speed. His face glued to the radarscope and its tireless, swinging line of light, Joe Holguin made manual adjustments to keep the crosshairs on the pip that marked his target. Nearly everything was handled by the "K" system, the fabulous new Air Force apparatus that automatically navigates, flies the plane and releases the bomb. From a sounding device came a steady hum. At the precise moment when...
...Manual of Discipline. The age of the scrolls fixed, the scholars turned to their origin. Archaeologists de Vaux and Harding had already searched the ruins from which Khirbet Qumrân took its name, concluded from the evidence they found that it had been the habitation of an ancient Jewish sect called the Essenes, one of the three major religious bodies within ancient Judaism (the others: the Pharisees and Sadducees). Their conclusions: 1) the manuscripts found near Khirbet Qumrân were once part of an Essene library; 2) the sectarian documents, i.e., The War of the Children of Light...
...music. After investigating and discarding other designs, Effinger came forth last week with a typewriter of 79 characters and a carriage that can be moved freely to produce the most complicated kind of notation. With a little practice, Effinger claims, typists will average about 60 characters a minute (manual copyists average 45). But the advantage, he believes, lies not so much in speed as in an amateur's ability to produce an accurate, legible score suitable for reproduction or for instant use on a music stand. Estimated cost of Effinger's machine...
...member Lutheran Missouri Synod launched a "Senior Citizens' Project" to take systematic advantage of the spare time and energy of its elder laymen for "God-pleasing endeavors." The synod's Laymen's League will probably appropriate $10,000 to begin the project, prepare a manual to suggest jobs that will benefit both churches and oldsters...