Word: manuals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...orchestra, but thousands of his spiritual prototypes have. To accommodate them, RCA Victor last week issued a package that encourages the hi-fi fan to do his armchair conducting openly and with proper equipment, rather than furtively with a pencil. The package: Music for Frustrated Conductors, complete with instructions manual and a 16¾-in. baton...
...College investigated this same problem four years ago, creating the "Harvard Plan" for Army ROTC. This program recommended a twelve rather than six-week summer camp to teach the basic Army manual courses, thus decreasing the amount of on-campus time required of the student. The latter is the University's basic complaint about ROTC. Characteristically, the Army rejected the "Harvard Plan," but did consent to modify it to the present program, which will continue...
...first time, Cleveland Pediatrician Benjamin (Baby and Child Care) Spock, 55, noted that Daniel Wood Spock (8 Ibs. 5 oz.) has the long-boned family heels, shipped off to the papa, Dayton Museum of Natural History Employee Michael Spock, a free copy of the bestselling (some 10 million copies) manual that has helped mold countless U.S. kiddies from cradle to kindergarten. Wise Dr. Spock promised to steer clear of ad-lib footnotes. Said he: "Don't meddle in your grandchildren's upbringing...
...followed that the Fund ought to be promoting a "Tactical Manual for Beleaguered Professors," which outlined whatever was known about preserving your job while under fire, or perhaps that Robert Hutchins ought to organize an employment agency for purge victims and send defense funds to those in danger...
...each stamp faces in the right direction, then postmarks and cancels 500 stamps a minute, double what a man can do. Next November the Post Office will get a 75-ft. long P-B mail sorter by which twelve operators each can sort 720 letters a minute-triple the manual rate. Each letter passes on a conveyor belt before the eyes of a postal worker, who pushes keys to direct it to one of 300 cubbyholes. Now P-B's scientists are tinkering with the ultimate in postal automation: a mechanical scanner to "read" the address...