Word: mins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Loaf of bread 5¾ min. 5½ min...
...produced by David Selznick for a sum ($3,900,000) that seemed tremendous by the production standards of 1939. He employed 13 scriptwriters, eight directors, four major stars (Gable, Howard, Olivia de Havilland, Vivien Leigh). He took six months to shoot the picture, which ran 3 hrs. 45 min., won ten Academy Awards and made $7,000,000 the first year it was released. In the 22 years since 1939, G.W.T.W. has been showing continuously somewhere in the world. It lasted four years in London and four in Paris, rolled four triumphant times...
...passing by skirting close to the crowds of spectators who lined the road, but at an intersection eight-tenths of a mile from the finish line, the road broadened momentarily and Oksanen broke into a sprint that got him by. When he crossed the line in 2 hrs. 23 min. 29 sec., Oksanen was 125 yds. and 25 sec. ahead of Kelley-one of the narrowest margins in the Boston Marathon's 65-year history. "You can get just so much out of yourself," said exhausted John Kelley. "I couldn't get any more." Winner Oksanen wandered...
...Suddenly it occurs to the spectator that Anna will never be found, that Claudia's love affair will never work out. that Sandro will never amount to anything, that in fact nothing of any importance or interest is going to happen in this interminable (2 hr. 25 min.) picture...
Machines or Books? There are three leading models of machines. Simplest is Grolier-Teaching Machines Inc.'s Min/ Max ($20): the student slides pieces of paper through it with a pencil eraser. Rheem Califone's Didak 501 ($157.50) follows Skinner's original design, with the programing on paper tape. Crowder designed Western Design's new AutoTutor Mark II ($1,250), a highly sophisticated branching device with up to 5,000 frames of microfilm. Eastman Kodak is well launched on a microfilm device, capable of handling different programs, that would sell to public schools for about...