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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been justified and fitted on perforated paper tape-are transmitted by wire from the Time and Life Building in Manhattan to our chief printing plant, R. R. Donnelley & Sons, in Chicago. There the tapes are reproduced and automatically operate high-speed Linotype machines. After stories are thus set, and page forms completed, Vinylite impressions are made of each page, and these in turn serve as the molds for the curved press plates. Even before Donnelley's 64-page presses start up on Sunday, identical Vinylite molds are on their way by commercial and chartered planes to our other...
Meanwhile, each page has also been recorded on photographic film, which is flown to our printers in Atlanta for the Latin American edition, to Montreal for the Canadian edition, and to Paris, Tokyo, Melbourne and now Auckland for our other regional editions. By Monday noon in Paris, Tuesday noon (one day later because of the international date line) Down Under, Tuesday night in Tokyo, the film has been transformed into offset printing plates...
...elaborate communications center in the basement of a Cambridge inn. Monitoring calls from contacts in 31 states--including Milton Eisenhower and the office of Pennsylvania's Governor Scranton--the Society rapidly compiled a detailed picture of the GOP disaster and two days later issued a nine-page statement in Washington asking Goldwater to drop his leadership role...
...chapter on the comparative physiology of the central nervous system does require a minor addendum. On page 73, Loeb says that worms do not posses associative memory, that is, the capacity for learning. This was consistent with what was known when Loeb wrote the chapter in 1899. Months after he revised it in 1912, Robert Yerkes reported in the Journal of Animal Behavior an experiment that became famous: Yerkes trained a single earthworm over a period of months to learn a simple maze. Fleming's note at the end of the chapter mentions neither this nor more recent experiments...
Usually I leave the world of football after dinner, but on Mondays there is a team meeting to go over the scouting reports on the week's opponent. The coaches handed out a 20-page brochure on Yale: the roster, statistics, play diagrams, defense diagrams, and on and on. Bob Gongola, the offensive backfield coach, had scouted them. Gongola, tall, blond, and muscular, with a flat-top haircut, stands out by inches when the coaches pose for pictures. He is, in his own immortal phrase, "a big stud...