Word: omaha
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...Telelectures" were pioneered at the University of Omaha, where Linguist Michel Beilis was saddled with the problem of luring big time lecturers to a distant and none-too-rich campus. Author Harry Golden, for example, set his price as "$1,500 just to lecture, $1,700 if I have to answer questions, $2,000 if I have to have cookies with the ladies." But by phone Beilis got the Golden word from North Carolina for a cutrate $214-$64 for the call and $150 for Harry. Omaha has since staged telelectures with eminences all over, from Anthropologist Margaret Mead...
PACE & Processes. A host of new processes that save on manpower, materials and money have produced countless efficiencies. In the stockyards of Chicago and Omaha, steers are turned into sirloins aboard conveyer belts that help packers to process 70 cattle an hour, compared with 40 a few years ago, and to do the job with 60 men instead of 150. Jones & Laughlin oxygen steel furnaces in Cleveland recently poured 491 tons of steel in one hour, compared with 60 tons for a similar-sized open hearth shop. Last week Reynolds Metals Co. announced that it had developed a laboratory method...
They also include: James F. Hays of Belmont, Mass., and Harvard, to study geology; Bruce H. Jackson of Fords, N.J., now studying at Indiana University, comparative literature; Saul A. Kripke of Omaha, Neb., now at Oxford, mathematical logic and philosophy; and Kenneth L. Nordtvelt, Jr., of Arlington, Mass., and M.I.T., theoretical physics...
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Died. Yetta Wallenda, 42, German-born acrobat and member of the ill-starred Flying Wallendas; of injuries suffered when she apparently fainted at the climax of her solo act atop a swaying fiber glass pole, fell gracefully and silently 50 ft. to the ground; in Omaha. Last year, when a fall killed two other members of the troupe and permanently crippled a third, Yetta said: "When I fall, I want to be dead...