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...time did we predict that Nixon would "squeeze ahead by two percentage points." Our only prediction was that the race was too volatile and too close to permit a prediction-with 4% of the eligible voters undecided up to the very end. Kennedy's margin of one-tenth of i% of the two-party vote does not seem to us to make that prediction "wrong." We do indeed feel good about the closeness of our measurement-only 1.1% off the mark. In our business, one inch to the right of the bull's eye is as accurate...
...soccer captain Chris O'Hiri led the Yardlings to a 92-17 triumph. Before incurring a slight muscle pull, O'Hiri established Freshman indoor and Harvard Freshman Cage marks with a 22 ft., 6 3/4 in., leap in the broad jump. His 4.6 in. the 40-yard dash was one-tenth of a second off the Freshman indoor record...
...chief advantages of the gas turbine are its simplicity (it has about 80% fewer working parts than a gas or diesel engine) and its compactness (it is only one-third as large as a comparable reciprocating engine and weighs only one-half to one-tenth as much). The gas turbine is extremely rugged, requires few repairs and runs on almost any liquid or gas fuel...
Professor Groth says that existing centrifuges require only one-tenth as much electric power as diffusion apparatus of the same capacity. The present Degussa model can be built for about $1,000. and according to Zippe, it will produce in one year about one pound of U-235. Improvements already in sight will increase this figure. Both Groth and Zippe believe that centrifuges will eventually compete economically with gaseous diffusion in making nuclear fuel, enriched in U-235, for atomic power plants...
...membrane, they started to grow again. Kidney cells grew into a tiny kidney that seemed to be trying to purify the blood of a nonexistent chick. Liver cells developed into a miniature liver one-fifth of an inch long and apparently able to secrete bile to digest a chick's food. The skin cells arranged themselves into a sheet, produced sprouting feathers about one-tenth of an inch long...