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Thus, as the current season started, the over-all total of productions since the War--student-written or otherwise--stood at the impressive figure of 426. For those interested in such things as the millionth car to go through the Holland Tunnel, the 400th post-War production turned out to be the Hasty Pudding show, Run for the Money...
...millionth of a second is a long, long time in modern science; many spectacular things, such as atomic bomb explosions, happen much faster. Therefore scientists are forever striving for more accurate measurement of time. In the latest Physical Review Letters, Harvard Physicists H. Mark Goldenberg. Daniel Kleppner and Norman F. Ramsey tell about a new electronic clock that they hope will keep time with an accuracy of one part in i million billion. This is equivalent to making an error of only one second in 30 million years...
...Single-frequency maser light may be used to measure long distances with the millionth-of-an-inch accuracy now possible only in laboratories...
...auto industry turned out its millionth compact in 1960 two weeks ahead of schedule. To mark the occasion, American Motors President George Romney, the small-car apostle who forced Detroit into the compact market, finally laid to rest rumors that had buzzed around Wall Street for three years: that American Motors would merge with Chrysler Corp. Romney feared that the persistent reports were damaging American Motors' future as well as the price of its stock, which is now about 30% below its 1959 high. Said he: "They are not only completely untrue but unfair to everyone...
...cars were nearly 7% above May of last year, represented the best daily-average selling rate (22,610) since September 1955. The industry is now running some 13% ahead of 1959's so-so year. Within the next fortnight, the U.S. auto industry expects to turn out its millionth compact...